Where it was filmed 'Stealing Beauty'

The arrival at Siena station of young American Lucy marks the beginning of the Tuscan holiday that will change the course of her teenage life.

The friends that put her up live in a farmhouse in Chianti that has been turned into a kind of commune, inhabited by artists and other guests, on the winding strip of land between Siena and Florence. The farmstead of the Barone Ricasoli property, in Gaiole in Chianti (SI), is clearly visible from Brolio Castle. The Mangia Tower in Piazza del Campo and that of Siena Cathedral, which feature in the aerial shot that accompanies the credits, stand tall in the distance for the entire film. All around are vineyards and the occasional olive tree.

The setting shifts to another magnificent location, Villa di Geggiano Bianchi Bandinelli in Pianella, in the municipality of Castelnuovo Berardenga (SI), where Lucy is deceived and then disappointed at a magnificent summer festival.

Love happens upon her almost by chance, unexpectedly, in the setting of the thermal springs of Acqua Borra in Monteaperti, a district of Castelnuovo Berardenga. And she loses her virginity under two oak trees so close to one another that they combine to form one single canopy between Brolio Castle and Geggiano.