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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The New York Tomes - Eyewitness to Fascism
Iris Origo's early life sounds like something out of a Henry James novel. Her father, Bayard Cutting, who came from an extremely wealthy American family, traveled the globe in search of relief from the symptoms of the tuberculosis that would kill him at age 29...
TDN - Heaven on allowed ground
In the literal sense, what she really did was to make my life possible. There are hundreds like me, all over Europe and America; the help she gave to my father during World War II is only one of the...
The New Yorker - Not a moment too soon: Iris Origo's war diary
It’s almost impossible to imagine a better time to read “A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940,” by Iris Origo, which is being published this week by New York Review Books. And, if there ever is a better time, it won’t be one we want to live in...
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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