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 The suites of "La Cittą Ideale" are three suites located in Pienza, a village on a tiny bump of a hill in the midst of the rolling farmland of Tuscany's Val d'Orcia.
Here, at the height of the 15th-century Renaissance, humanist Pope Pius II, with the help of architect Bernardo Rossellino, converted the tiny village in which he had been born into the ideal Renaissance City (la Cittą Ideale in Italian).
The Pope never achieved his goal completely, for all Pius's dreams, Pienza never became more than a village. |
 However this village remains one of the grandest achievements of Renaissance architecture and the only intact example of a city-planning scheme from the era.
Director Franco Zefferelli was so taken by the village's look he dethroned Verona as the city of the Montagues and Capulets and filmed his Romeo and Juliet in Pienza. |
 Pienza was also used in the Oscar-winning epic The English Patient.
Todays' Pienza in no more than a handful of spacious side streets within the village proud little walls, with very modest new developments.
The views over the surrounding countryside is one of the more picturesque (and pictured) of all Tuscany. |
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