Tuscany & Rome Italy 2004
 
Here are some photos from our Under the Tuscan Sun Adventure Tour: September 2004. Three days in Rome and a week in Tuscany at the Villa Montestigliano. We plan to return to Tuscany with another group of garden lovers in September 2006. Contact me by e-mail if you would like more information about our next Italy trip.

The front of the villa at Montestigliano. This is still the home of the family that owns the 500 acres of olive and grape orchards.
A visit to The Vatican Gardens in Rome showed the colors of the Swiss Guards.

 

The outer courtyard at the Villa. We dined in this building that was once a grain house and met most afternoons in the sunshine of this courtyard that overlooked the valley below.

 

Just another great dinner at a local Tuscan Restaurant.

 

Le Antiche Terme Di Diana: a beautiful restaurant, Tivoli - Roma. The building was actually an ancient Roman structure, a thermal complex and a temple dedicated to the Goddess Diana, dated to the year 376 BC.

 

And here we are having a wonderful dinner just like the Romans did years ago.

 

Joe, Allen, and Ginny in a formal Tuscan garden, complete with a chapel that the family has used for several generations.

 

Tuscany is known for their beautiful ceramics, and we just happen to find this shop on our way to a winery.

 

Dick and Pat Miller at the ruins of the Coliseum. (a pretty good photo back drop)

 

Water fun with one of the statues at Tivoli Fountains. Can you see the Italian resemblance?

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