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It\'s easy to see why. Last summer me and my friend decided to spend our vacation there. We both adore it\'s beautiful landscape and it\'s delicious vine and dishes. Tuscany is one of the most beautiful parts of Italy. With its waved hills vineyards, olive trees and sunflower fields. But we didn\'t come only for relaxation good food and wine. Tuscany attracted us beside all for its special artistic energy and special beautiful colors that each tourist coming to that land can see, feel and experience.
Tuscany is the land more often than not defined by colors: siena and terra, sepia or azurro. Where else would they name a whole city after a color: Siena? When you picture this region what comes to mind? Colors. The rolling golden wheat fields of summer framed by magic indigo skies and Michelangelo clouds. Old ladies dressed in black perched on benches before white washed walls and redish terra cotta bricks. Never fixed, it\'s the changing hues from dawn to dusk; light green fields of winter which turn parched by mid-august and show the dirt by fall. And why not, it\'s these colors with their significance that makes this a paradise. The rich red earth of tuffo and cotta which provides the perfect balance for the olives and vines. Endless azure skies allowing as much golden sunlight as the plants will take and ensuring that an afternoon siesta never goes out of fashion.
And without forgetting seeing magic frescos in the numerous acient churches, beautiful renaissance architecture, important museums full of paintings like the fourth most visited world museum as the Galleria Uffizzi in Florence is (one milion and a half of visitors every year, you have to prepaire yourself to one of the most impressive queues in Italy, to be able to see it), or numerous museums full of archaeological founds like museum in Volterra is, full of Etruscan and Roman art. Tuscany gave birth as well as attracted there and adopted many important artists as: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Cimabue, Giotto, Lippi, Raphael, Girlandaio, Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Vasari... that were flourishing here for centuries. For part of our vacation we decided to spend it in a more sofisticated way. We reserved us a part in an ART LANDSCAPE PAINTING COURSE. I paint sometimes for hobby, but during the last years I had less and less time, and my friend was a complete beginner. But our painting vacation was unforgetably beautiful. We found on internet one week course: INTERNATIONAL ART LANDSCAPE PAINTING WORKSHOP(http://welcome.to/International.Painting.Workshops.Demsar, or http://www2.arnes.si/~tdemsa, e-mail:tjasa.demsar@guest.arnes.si), organised by Tjasa Demsar an internationally known Slovenian young painter living in Venice. She studied in Florence in England and graduated in The Netherlands. Her lessons were in English and Italian at the same time. She speaks them both fluently. The participants, of different levels (from beginners to advanced), were from all over the world, a quite exciting and stimulating international mix. We were staying at the agritourism San Donato a village - small hamlet clustered around a tiny Romanesque church. Four kilometres from San Gimignano, in the heart of the Chianti region, it is well situated in relation to Florence, Siena, Volterra, Pisa, and Lucca.
We were painting every morning, visiting other towns like Volterra, Siena, Florence in the afternoon, or gone for trekking across the land. Walking in the heart of Tuscany, in the midst of San Gimignano\'s countryside is one of the most beautiful things that I have ever done. To paint it from real, even more. The most beautifull place that we have seen while trekking, was Castel Vecchio, in the middle of the woods, a city abandoned in the 13th century. With one tall fortress at the beginning, long main street with the remains of the stone houses and trees growing in between, two meal whiels and at the end of town a beautiful Romanic church, without a roof, with still some frescos to be seen on the walls of the altar. (See more on it and on other nearby Tuscany castles: http://www.castellitoscani.com/).
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