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La Foce estate is located in the hills overlooking the Val d’Orcia and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Villa at La Foce is a historic Italian residence built in the late 15th century and since 1924 inhabited by Antonio and Iris Origo, who curated its now world-famous gardens. This classy building is perfect for weddings, celebrations, events and family gatherings.

The dialogue between buildings, garden and nature places La Foce at the center of a historical testimony to the architectural and cultural evolution of Tuscany. The garden was created in four phases between 1925 and 1939. A formal Italian garden, divided into geometric ‘rooms’ by box hedges, stretches from the house toward the Val d’Orcia and Mount Amiata.
Terraced slopes rise gently up the hill, where cherry, pine, and cypress trees grow among wild broom, thyme, and rosemary, and a long avenue of cypress trees leads to a 17th-century stone statue.
A travertine path under a wisteria arbor reaches the woods and connects the garden with the family cemetery, considered one of Pinsent‘s finest creations, where Antonio and Iris Origo rest, along with their son Gianni, who died as a child.

When Antonio and Iris Origo bought La Foce estate they asked the English architect Cecil Pinsent to renovate the Villa and the surrounding buildings and to create a large garden.

Pinsent (1884-1963) had settled in Florence as a young man, working at the Villa Medici in Fiesole (aquired in 1910 by Iris’s mother) and Bernard Berenson’s Villa I Tatti, among others.

Visits to the Garden of Villa Origo, Wednesday afternoon and Sunday by reservation. For information and reservations: phone 0578 69101 or info@lafoce.com