Destination Description:

The resort Arezzo:
Arezzo is situated on a small hill on the edge of a wide valley basin between the high valley of Casentino, the Arno and the Chianti valleys. The town is known for goldsmith art, crafts and trades, and still display many buildings from the Middle Ages. One can view the masterpiece of Piero della Francesca in the San Francesco church, the fresco "The Legend of the Cross."  Access by the train Firenze - Roma railway station in the resort. For arrivals by plane: Firenze Airport (FLR) 50 mi.

The region of Tuscany Arezzo:
Always especially attractive to mystics was the eastern part of Tuscany, where old monastic orders have existed through time. No wonder that a mysterious artist like Piero della Francesca has his roots in this area; his fresco gracing San Francesco in Arezo is regarded as one of the most beautiful in the world. Only a few travelers discover the wooded hills off the well-travelled main road, Florence-Rome, even though this area is especially charming in autumn.  That's when the woods of Casentino change their color to golden red, and the mushroom and tarufo-season starts. These regional delights are on sale all over the region on streets and on menu cards in restaurants. In the pastures up in the hills in the east, sheep and white cows graze. Their milk will be processed into delicious cheese. This part of Tuscany is the land of the holy, the hermits and the monasteries. In the monastery La Verma, up on the hill, the holy Franceso is said to have lived the wonder of the stigmata. The monks of the Benedictine order of Camaldolli (11th century) originally wanted to live in seclusion; however, Vallombrosa Abbey became famous with John Milton's Paradise Lost epic.