
Our view of the countryside outside Lucignano

Local restaurant in Montepulciano

Eager children making their gelato selections

Chocolate gelato

View of the pool from my room
Umbria

Isola maggiore

Pici pasta with black truffles/Pici al tartufo nero

Grilled European whitefish/Coregone alla griglia

Ask around bars and restaurants to find a local truffle hunter to sell you black summer truffles

Wild boar head outside a shop, indicating they sell salami

Cheese and prosciutto bread rings

Deruta ceramics from Umbria, a great souvenir
Tuscany

Piagga San Martino, Arezzo

Antipasto toscano/Tuscan mixed starter of cold cuts, preserved vegetables, and bread with different spreads

Homemade grappa

Bring home pan pepato (nut and fruit cake) from Siena

Walkway to a vista point in Montepulciano

Pastry shop window

Peaches and plums at a fruit stand in Montepulciano
Great shop for copper cookware:
Bottega di Rame
Via dell’Opio nel Corso, 64 53045 Montepulciano (SI), TuscanyTel: +39 0578 758 753
Bottegadelrame@rameria.com
www.rameria.com
They craft almost any kitchen ware you can imagine in copper and ship internationally. See their website for a list of products.

Copperware
Best for local products/ best Chianina steak:
Marciano della Chiana, Tuscany
Also wins the award for most embodying the concept of the Slow Food movement and most amazing setting. We arrived in the evening, the lone table of diners in the centre of the piazza. The excellent food is served by your host who begins with a lively explanation of each dish with how his grandmother would prepare this dish or about the ingredients which he grows himself. Dinner finishes with an invitation to try the local Nocino (walnut liqueur) or homemade grappa. Goose and pasta with pecorino cheese, chilli, and pears are the house specialties.
Da Forcillo
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