"After a 2003 visit, Michael Cioffi, founder and owner of Monteverdi Tuscany, describes hiking up to the hilltop village of Castiglioncello del Trinoro and being awestruck by the incomparable beauty of the surrounding landscape; feeling as though he had stepped out of time inspired him to buy, preserve and restore one building, which grew into many more and became Monteverdi Tuscany." - Jenn Rice