Val d'Orcia is a picturesque agricultural valley, which is now a Unesco World Heritage site. Our photographic journey lays through the beautiful land of Val d'Orcia with the valley's distinctive landscape that features flat chalk plains with rising conical hills which are topped with fortified settlements and medieval abbeys. Val d'Orcia is a paradise for a photographer.
The place is also popular among cinematographers – there were countless of movies shot in the vicinity, among those are 8½ by Federico Fellini (1963), Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky (1983), The English Patient by Anthony Minghella (1996), Stealing Beauty by Bernardo Bertolucci (1996), A Midsummer Night's Dream by Michael Hoffman (1999), and, of course, Gladiator by Ridley Scott (2000).