The Lunigiana | The Real Off the Beaten Path Italy

Notes from a borgo at four hundred meters

We chose it the way you choose a card from a deck. Sophia and I had spent half a year in Budapest by then, sitting with a death in the family, and we wanted to come back to Italy for the part of Italy that has nothing to do with anyone else’s idea of it. No Chianti. No Val d’Orcia. No Montepulciano, no San Gimignano, no Volterra, no stone farmhouse with…