The photos were taken in the Chianti region, located in the provinces of Florence and Siena.
Under a sunny sky, among the hills that surround the villages of Gaiole and Radda, the rows of vines alternate with oak groves and the omnipresent cypress, between warm and welcoming lights and sudden openings of sky. The typical farmhouses appear, surprising us, behind a bend in the road or on top of a hill. These solid buildings – otherwise called “master’s houses” – are often characterized by a dovecote tower, and from the 13th century they began to increasingly characterize the landscape of these areas. They are centuries-old evidence of sharecropping, but, unlike what happened in other regions, they still maintain a residential function that preserves them from degradation.