Tuscan Hotel & Creative Residence Villa Lena: A Solo Traveler’s Diary

Just shy of two hours from the center of Florence, the greens and pinks of Renaissance churches have become the palette of a remote Sienese landscape; cypress trees tinted rose in the setting sun. As pasture becomes woodland, the rough climbing track wheels past the solid gates of a kitchen garden; and then at last - settles at the terracotta facade of a grand century villa, fronted by fountains and pomegranates, painterly vista beyond. 

Sequestered amongst 500 hectares o