7LE CRETE SENESI
Just south of Siena in the countryside of Tuscany is one of Italy’s most fascinating regions called Le Crete Senesi (The Clays of Siena), remarkably unique for its undulating knolls, soft rolling hills and lunar landscape, a sea of land dotted with medieval farmhouses and hamlets, and crossed by windy country roads lined with characteristic cypress trees. It’s a rare sight envied by many of Italy’s beautiful territories.
Composed of clay known as mattaione, are sediments of the Pilocense sea that once covered this area about 3-4 million years ago. The landscape changes with the seasons: from winter’s green patchwork of shimmering crushed velvet, to summer’s gentle golden wheat, and fall’s post harvest desert-like lunar scape.
