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Rolling hills, good wine and significant culture: Italy like in a picture book. A journey with many encounters in the tourist magnets, but also beyond them. More exciting documentaries & reports in the media library: https://www.ardmediathek.de/dokus Rolling hills, good wine and significant culture - On a journey with many encounters through Italy like in a picture book. Hardly any travel destination is as popular with Germans as the Italian Tuscany. What magic does this dream region in Italy exude? Is it the nature, the charm of the rolling hills with cypress avenues and olive groves? Is it Italy's cities like Pisa or Florence, in whose alleys you can travel back in time? Or is it the Dolce Vita with a Mediterranean climate, pasta and excellent wine? In lively San Gimignano, ice cream maker Sergio Dondoli has passionately made his ice cream known far beyond Italy's borders. Jockey Andrea Peruzzi is preparing for his start in the annual donkey race in the tranquil village of Torrita di Siena. The "Palio dei Somari" is the highlight of a colorful medieval festival, which has a long tradition throughout Italy. The Maremma, a wild, drained swamp landscape, is home to the last cowboys in Tuscany. Paolo Fanciulli lives on the edge of the Parco Regionale della Maremma. The fishing activist is considered the inventor of Pescaturismo. The island of Elba off Italy's Mediterranean coast attracts with endless sandy beaches, rugged rock formations and plains in fertile green. This film by Timo Zorn has the original title: "Tuscany - between Florence and Elba", broadcast on SWR television on January 29, 2023. All statements and facts correspond to the status at the time and have not been updated since then.