There is the "Chestnut Festival" in Roccastrada, in the province of Grosseto, the "Thrush Feast" in Montalcino, close to Siena, the "Waffle Festival" in Vaglia, in the neighbourhood of Florence, and the "Festival of White Truffle and Mushrooms" in San Miniato, in the province of Pisa.

And list could continue with the numerous festivals taking place in all of the ten provinces of one of the most charming European regions is divided into.

If you have decided to rent a villa in Tuscany in autumn , visiting popular festivals and traditional street markets is a very peculiar and amusing way to discover the traditions and folklore of the land of the Medicis. Your stay in a Tuscan villa would then become a real trip back in time in the atmosphere, costumes, sounds, habits, flavours and traditions of medieval Tuscany.

And that is not all.

Indeed, renting a holiday villa in Tuscany between the end of September and the first half of December could turn out to offer many advantages:

• from the economic point of view - in this period of the year prices are often reduced with many unmissable offers;

• from the point of view of the tourist flux - with less tourists visiting museums and monuments, you will not have to queue too much;

• from the landscape point of view... - just image a Tuscan estate immersed in the red and yellow hues of the countryside in autumn.

So, if you want to visit Tuscany why do not you choose autumn?