Climate.
The bright lights of the Mediterranean and the warm Tuscan colours ignite then soften through the long, peaceful days. The climate is mild throughout the year.

The presence of the sea and the protection offered by the hills make a holiday on the Tuscan coast possible in any season. Summers are long, the spring and autumn are mild.

Temperate winters with low rainfall offer clear days and sunsets which turn the sky red. Each season has its own particular fascination, which attracts and intrigues tourists of all ages.

The extraordinary variety of environmental system and the variation of environments and landscapes allow the tourist to diversify the habits, the style and the use of its own free time.

The good relation between "nature and environment" takes the tourist to reach the wellness, making sport, also on holiday.

Sport Tourism includes the typical elements of sport and tourism and linked cultural features, and combines them with the concept of travel and stay.

Many are the opportunities to make sports in a territory that offers a wonderful sea, trekking and cycle paths, golf green and open air sport areas, hotel and facilities for every sport activity.

Spas in Tuscany.
Feeling well. Feeling fit, in harmony with yourself. Spas of Tuscany is a full immersion, a voyage within yourself to recover your lost well-being.
This is the tourism of the new millennium, and Tuscany is the region of Italy with the greatest number of spas.
Think, for example, of the many springs with water rich in natural elements. Think of the springs already known in the days of Emperor Augustus, or of those preferred by Matilda
of Canossa, or of the first water where Saint Catherine of Siena used to bathe, or of the spas Pirandello
and Verdi used to go to.
Natural resources, waters which find their way through the rocks drop by drop, and come out into the sunlight in spontaneous springs, natural swimming pools which you can dive into, in order to regenerate yourself and find a balance between body fitness and inner serenity. Spas have now
become the new temples of health in Tuscany, where the natural beauty of sites is rounded off by renovated tourist facilities, invigorating streams, caves and falls with warm water. Enchanting places where nature answers the need for health and well being.

Spas in Tuscany.
Abetone Pistoia.
Amiata.
Arezzo.
Chianciano Valdichiana.
The Etruscan coast.
Florence.
Grosseto.
Lucca.
Massa.
Montecatini Terme Valdinievole.
Pisa.
Prato.
Siena.
Tuscan Archipelago.
Versilia.

Parks and Nature.
Rolling hills, chromatic extravaganzas in fields, rustic farmhouses. And cypress trees.
Thus the Tuscan landscape has conquered the world. And yet, the nature of Tuscany is more than this.
The surprise of snow-covered peaks, ponds and lagoons, Mediterranean underbrush that grows right out to the sea, woods and a countryside still marked by the millenarian practice of promiscuous cultivation.
Resolutely protected parks and reserves that are not oases in the desert but links in a network that covers all the environmental systems of the region: Apennines, hilly inland, wetlands, coast.
The system of protected natural areas of Tuscany includes,
national parks, state and sea reserves, wetlands of international importance, regional parks, provincial parks, provincial reserves, protected natural areas of local interest.
In actuation of the Community "Habitat" directive (92/43/EEC), 120 sites have been identified and classified as having community importance (pSic) and 30 as areas of special protection (Zps), 15 of which correspond to pSics. These are joined by 15 sites of regional interest (Sir) and 7 sites of national interest (Sin).
The totality of these areas is an integrating part of the national ecological network and, in the Community perspective, of the Nature 2000 European Network.

Parks and Nature.
National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago.
National Park of the Casentino Forests.
Apuane Alps Regional Park.
Maremma Regional Park.
Migliarino - San Rossore - Massaciuccoli Regional Park.

Sea.
With one of the Mediterranean's clearest blue seas lapping against its shores, the Tuscan coastline offers an extraordinary variety of environmental conditions, particularly insofar as concerns the forms of the coastline.

Long sandy coastlines such as those of Versilia and the Etruscan coast, the rocky cliffs of Piombino and the Argentario, lthe unspoilt natural landscape of the Maremma and the islands of the Archipelago. There are also the immense pine-woods, the lakes with their abundant birdlife, the peaceful mouths of the rivers Arno and Ombrone, and the colours and fragrances of the Mediterranean brush.

These unique landscapes have been one of the attractions of the coast since the end of the 19th century, when the first holidaymakers discovered the healthy properties of sea-bathing and walks in the pine-woods.

Arcipelago toscano.
Costa degli etruschi.
Litorale Pisano.
Maremma.
Riviera Apuana.
Versilia.

Mountains.
Take an emotional and colourful trip into the Tuscan mountains, there are hundreds of things to do.

In the Apuan Alps you will ascend into marble cathedrals, but you will also discover the kingdom of Lunigiana, full of enchanted caves and castles. The dazzling white of the quarries on one side and the wild, green valley of Garfagnana on the other.

If you feel the call of spirituality, awaiting you are the sacred Casentino forests with their monasteries and hermitages along the way where nature is not the only thing to discover. While if you love the sound of the woods, you will be enthralled by the stage that is the Mugello, an aristocratic and timeless land.

You can be overcome by the triangular heights of Monte Amiata, so lonely, but at the same time full of roe and fallow deer, by mountains embraced in the world's most famous vineyards or by the wooded Abetone which transforms into pistes for ski lovers in the winter.

Go into the mountains and discover your emotions again. Colours, smells, sounds and tastes snatched away from city pollution. Pure feelings about to be forgotten, but still intact in the Tuscan mountains.

Waiting for you to explore are miles and miles of pathways for trekking, mountain biking, skiing, but also for pure contemplation and absolute rest.
In these natural surroundings there are emotions for all tastes, and challenges of all shapes and sizes.

Apuan Alps.
Casentino.
Garfagnana.
Lunigiana.
Monte Amiata.
Mugello.
Pistoian Appenine.

Wine Trails.
The "Wine Trails of Tuscany" run through magnificent wine-growing areas which, apart from the obvious vineyards and wineries, offer an integrated tourist package of cultural, historical and natural attractions.

These trails are also a means of fostering rural development and of promoting so-called "Enotourism", that is, setting wine production in a cultural, environmental, historical and social context.

Wine Trails.
Wine Trail "Candia and Lunigiana Hills".
Wine Trail Arezzo Country.
Wine Trail Carmignano Medici.
Wine Trail Chianti Rufina and Chianti Pomino.
Wine Trail Etruscan Coast.
Wine Trail Florentine Hills.
Wine Trail Lucchesi Montecarlo Hills.
Wine Trail Maremma Hills.
Wine Trail Montecucco.
Wine Trail Monteregio di Massa Marittima.
Wine Trail Montespertoli.
Wine Trail Pisan Hills.
Wine Trail Vernaccia di San Gimignano.
Wine Trail "Vino Nobile di Montepulciano".

Very few places in the world can boast an artistic legacy with contents so deeply rooted in the territory and popular culture as Tuscany. We invite you to discover this elect land of art and civilisation which today continues to be a sought-after place of residence and source of inspiration for numerous Italian and foreign artists. The countless testimonies of art in Tuscany indeed narrate a story as articulated and complex as it is unique and unrepeatable, starting at the dawn of civilisation and continuing, without solution of continuity, up until present day. For the visitor, a trip to Tuscany at the beginning of the Third Millennium holds much the same fascination that accompanied the travellers on the Grand Tour. The first-time visitor to the lands of Tuscany can not but be amazed by the natural symbiosis between landscape and culture, history and the expressive means of architecture and town-planning, the urban and rural dimension, and its patrimony of art, architecture, monuments and museums. A cradle of Italian civilisation and one of the greatest crucibles of modern European culture, Tuscany is not only tied to the extraordinary elaboration of concepts and the original expression of forms and methods that left their mark in more than two millennia of history: it was itself a forge of an extraordinary artistic production that set pace and means on the continent. We need only recall the universal nature of the Renaissance which, starting in Florence and thanks to the versatility and genius of its extraordinary interpreters, spread and took root throughout Europe. Tuscany as a workshop of artistic experiences, as a place of synthesis and rebirth on a universal level. A synthesis of art in this region begins with the cave dwellings of Cetona, the stele-statues of Lunigiana, the presence of ancient civilisations on Elba Island, and then continues with the Etruscan necropolises with tangible signs of a Roman past, the countless testimonies of the Middle Ages, the flowering of the Gothic, the explosion of the Renaissance, the opulence of the Baroque, the Macchiaioli, the flowery art nouveau style, termed Liberty, finally reaching the expressions and trends of contemporary art.

Cities of art.
Arezzo.
Florence.
Grosseto.
Livorno.
Lucca.
Massa Carrara.
Pisa.
Pistoia.
Prato.
Siena.

When tradition, intended as the relationship with one's country and maritime roots, is combined with the quality of the local products, without relinquishing the desire to try something new and learn from surrounding or foreign gastronomic traditions, the results cannot fail to be extraordinary.

Here are a selection of great dishes which combine natural ingredients, decisive flavours and top-quality raw materials: a maritime cuisine which does not ignore the inland part of the region, with its farms, typical crops, hunting and gathering of woodland products.

The flavour of the olive oil, the fragrance of the bread and the soups and the abundant meat are accompanied by numerous wines: traditional DOC reds and whites and aristocratic wines, among the world's most renowned Italian wines.