F or the best part of a year, I worked as a gardener at a private estate in Val d'Orcia, a region of Tuscany that feels much like the land that time forgot. South of Siena, Val d' ...

Italian villa specialist Tuscany Now & More, who handle this property ... where frescoes by Ghirlandaio illustrate both the Old and New Testaments, is well worth a visit. A photo posted by on Our ...

In the meantime, the Tuscan villa changed ownership and it was renamed ... kitchens and a gigantic veranda in old wrought ...