Well prepared, delicious food in a lovely setting near the La Foce country house. Visit the gardens on Wednesday afternoons. Read Iris Origo’s fascinating account of the last years of the war in this part of Tuscany in ‘War in the Val d’Orcia’. Iris, a British national married to an Italian aristocrat, lived here during the war. Strada della Vittoria, 90, La Foce, Pienza 55km from Podere Sant’Angelo