Echoes of history at a Tuscan estate
The Villa and the Garden
The garden
When Antonio and Iris Origo bought the estate of La Foce, they engaged the English architect Cecil Pinsent, who had previously done extensive work on Bernard Berenson's Villa I Tatti in Florence, to restructure the main...
Villa Origo
Villa La Foce is an Italian Historic House and its gardens are world-famous. It is available for rent either by the week or for events such as weddings and family celebrations, and is also available as a filming location.
Iris Origo
The wonderful - though sometimes difficult - years at La Foce are vividly described by Iris in her two autobiographical books, Images and Shadows and War in Val d'Orcia. Iris (1902-1988) was brought up between Florence...
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Memorie di Luce, mostra personale di Giovanna Lysy
Venerdì 23 marzo alle ore 18,30 si inaugura la mostra personale dell’artista Giovanna Lysy , nella suggestiva cornice della chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi a Città della Pieve.
London Review of Book
This latest reprint of lris Origo's The Merchant of Prato celebrates it as a 'modem classic', though it can't have seemed very modem when it first appeared in 1957. Various books published that year had some kind of finger on the pulse - On the Road, Room at the Top, The Uses of Literacy - but a biography of a...
TLS - A need to testify
Iris Origo died in 1988, aged eighty-five. Almost thirty years later, Pushkin Press are printing a hitherto unpublished diary, together with a selection of her other Italian books, some no longer in print.
Il parco più bello d'Italia 2017
Dopolavoro "La Foce"
The ‘Dopolavoro’ was originally built in 1939 as a meeting place for the workers on the estate. Today, the restaurant serves traditional Tuscan dishes, flavored with the delicious La Foce extra-virgin olive oil and created with the best seasonal local produce.
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