Stay in splendid isolation at the villas and farmhouses for rent in the rolling hills of rural Italy, and you will feel right at home. For some, it seems the impossible dream. A distant playground for ...

Summer 2010 sold better than many villa owners expected, so small price increases have crept in for high season. Villas in central Tuscany continue to command a premium of 30 per cent over ...

The rolling dawn mist clears to reveal medieval hilltop villages shimmering in the early August morning sunlight and vineyards so pristine they look as though they’ve been groomed with a fine-tooth ...

Fly, to Pisa, head north-east by car or train and within 30 minutes you are in Lucca, a beautiful Tuscan walled city of intimate squares, marble-fronted churches and wood-panelled restaurants. Lucca’s ...