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Callie and Mark got married in the town hall of Pienza, on a warm day at the end of September. The town, in the southernmost part of Tuscany, is ideal for lovers of all things authentic and unspoilt: the wines of Pienza and especially Montalcino (famous for it's Brunello, perhaps the best of all Italian reds) and the cheese, wild boar and home cooking of Pienza itself. The sheep's cheese, Pecorino di Pienza, is widely acclaimed as one of the finest cheeses in Europe.
But Pienza itself remains largely unchanged since Roman times, and other than being made famous for the filming of the Oscar winning film, The English Patient, not much has changed in the last few centuries...
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