Every year, the historical centre of Cetona is filled with colorful flowers welcoming the spring. An added plus is you can also buy anything you will ever need for your own garden.

Bico is a type of flatbread kneaded by hand and its humble beginnings with recipes handed down through generations is celebrated in Piazze.

The most famous festival in Tuscany that happens twice a year in July and August, the Palio horse races around the Piazza del Campo, a competition between 10 teams representing the city’s 17 wards or contradas, have been in place for 900 years. Pick a color and cheer!

An annual summer music and opera festival founded by composer Gian Carlo Menotti with the intent to strengthen the ties of both American and European cultures, hence the two worlds. Famous people who have participated include Rudolf Nureyev, Luciano Pavarotti and Al Pacino.

Gioco del Caio al Fuso or the Cheese Game celebrated in the Pio II Square in Pienza on the first September weekend, when players of each district roll their famous Pecorino cheese around a wooden spindle. You can try variations of Pecorino in the various food stalls.

Elaborately shaped and coloured lanterns are carried by children in the streets of Florence, in homage to medieval peasants that would carry lanterns into the city to camp and sell their wares the next day, the Feast of the Birth of the Virgin Mary

The Winter Jazz Festival in Orvieto is world renowned, having hosted music legends such as Miles Davis, B.B. King, Santana, Elton John and Sting. You never know who you will rub shoulders with when you attend.