Tuscany: The Celluloid Landscape? With a unique landscape and exquisite cuisine, Tuscany is constantly crowded with millions of tourists.The Tuscan region of Italy is home to the most beautiful landscapes worldwide. In addition of its unimaginable landscapes, the area boasts a unique way of life and a rich cultural legacy. Tuscany is honored as the birthplace of legends, including the poet Dante Alighieri, the explorer and cartographer Americo Vespucio (the namesake of the Americas), artist Sandro Boticelli, and the grand-master himself: the famous Leonardo Da Vinci.
This bequest of fame continues even today, with directors from all across the globe clamouring to shoot their photographs amid the pretty vistas. The numerous actors and directors who work in Tuscany always fall head over heels in love, and many return shortly after their work is done, as did Antony Hopkins after shooting Hannibal.
Countless movies have been filmed in the Tuscan landscapes. One was Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe as the warrior Maximus. The beautiful wheat fields of Sienna were changed into the Elysian fields where the Gladiator found his heavenly reward at the film's end. The beautiful valley where this scene was shot is in consistent change: the bright green cornfields of the spring turn a brilliant gold in June. It truly is a shangri la on Earth.
Another can't-miss film would be the exquisite Under the Tuscan Sun. Filmed round the towns of Montepulciano, Cortona and the Amalfi coast, it tells the tale of Frances Mayes, an American writer who, after her divorce, goes to Italy and starts the long restoration of a Renaissance villa.
Other films include Tea With Mussolini, Life is Pretty, Midsummer Night's Dream, The English Patient, and Pinching Beauty.
Tuscany has been the landscape of classic movies since the beginning of cinema and should continue being so in the years to come!
This bequest of fame continues even today, with directors from all across the globe clamouring to shoot their photographs amid the pretty vistas. The numerous actors and directors who work in Tuscany always fall head over heels in love, and many return shortly after their work is done, as did Antony Hopkins after shooting Hannibal.
Countless movies have been filmed in the Tuscan landscapes. One was Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe as the warrior Maximus. The beautiful wheat fields of Sienna were changed into the Elysian fields where the Gladiator found his heavenly reward at the film's end. The beautiful valley where this scene was shot is in consistent change: the bright green cornfields of the spring turn a brilliant gold in June. It truly is a shangri la on Earth.
Another can't-miss film would be the exquisite Under the Tuscan Sun. Filmed round the towns of Montepulciano, Cortona and the Amalfi coast, it tells the tale of Frances Mayes, an American writer who, after her divorce, goes to Italy and starts the long restoration of a Renaissance villa.
Other films include Tea With Mussolini, Life is Pretty, Midsummer Night's Dream, The English Patient, and Pinching Beauty.
Tuscany has been the landscape of classic movies since the beginning of cinema and should continue being so in the years to come!
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