An American writer (Frances Mayes) buys and renovates a farmhouse in the Tuscan countryside, near Cortona, and begins to spend her summers there. The landscape is enchanting, the climate sweet, the food delicious. And from the enchantments of an ideal life, marked by the rituals of the countryside, came the book of memoirs, which has fascinated America for the beauty of the environment, but also for the quality of the writing that describes it, evocative, intense, capable of transmitting with almost tangible evidence the pleasure of life among the colors, scents, flavors, recipes collected and proposed by the author, of an Italy to discover or rediscover.
The book, which has become a best seller in America, has brought thousands of tourists from all over the world to visit Villa Bramasole, which can be reached on foot from the centre of Cortona in about half an hour, walking along an avenue of cypress trees, each of which was planted in memory of a casualty of the Second World War. Today the villa is a destination for foreign tourists from all over the world in search of that atmosphere you can breathe in the book "Under the Tuscan Sun".The beautiful walk starts from the public gardens of Cortona "Il Parterre".
