Renaissance palazzos on a wine-soaked ridge: home of Vino Nobile and Tuscany's most dramatic cellar visits.
Explore → Get Early AccessA Renaissance hill town that happens to be a wine cellar — palazzi above, aging barrels in Etruscan caves below, and the Vino Nobile poured where it's made. Climb the Palazzo Comunale tower for a two-region view, then descend into the cantinas.
Poliziano's hometown flourished under Florentine protection — the main street is a catwalk of Renaissance palaces — while its 'noble wine' earned the name from its papal and aristocratic clientele centuries before DOCG rules existed.
The cantinas beneath the town descend through medieval cellars into genuinely Etruscan chambers — Cantina Ercolani includes a tomb. Twilight's New Moon filmed its Volturi scenes on the piazza, which the town has spent years graciously living down.
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