Tuscan countryside

It can really be argued that the Tuscan countryside represents the ideal harmonious landscape. It has its roots in the municipal revival of the Middle Ages. Then the Renaissance sublimated its features, crystallizing them into absolute beauty. However, the balanced humanization of the landscape originates from the sharecropping typical of the Tuscan countryside. Sharecropping made it necessary to build farmhouses scattered throughout the Tuscan countryside. Each farmhouse was generally intended for 1 or 2 families. Each farmhouse had a limited number of hectares of land in care. So the distance between one house and another was never too great. At the same time there was never the risk of having an overcrowding of houses but everything was well harmonized in the available Tuscan countryside. Over the years, this has made it possible to recover almost all the farmhouses for first or second homes. There are not a few foreign tourists (especially British and German) who live permanently in the Tuscan countryside. Also from a tourist point of view in Tuscany there has been a real boom in farmhouses.

photo and text by @alenox