Val d'Orcia

There's Florence, Siena, Lucca.

Pisa, Val d'Orcia, Chianti, the mountains, the coast, and the hundreds of smaller villages and towns that most travelers have never, ever, ever heard of.

So when someone tells me we're doing Tuscany in three days, my first question is, what do you mean by Tuscany? Because that's where the itinerary can start to fall apart.

Tuscany is not one stop on your Italy itinerary.