Pienza

Pienza is situated on a hill, which get an overview of the Val d' Orcia. Val d'Orcia is a dry meadow, full of wheat cultivations. When you see some calendar's photographs or some advertisement's landscapes showing cultivated fields with straw rolls here and there spread, be sure: it is Val d'Orcia. Pienza here is well- known for the pecorino cheese and they say King Charles Magnus himself has tasted it. Charles Magnus was going to Rome to visit the Pope and he stopped to sleep in Pienza, know in those times as Corsignano. An abbot, who lived nearby, had to feed him and he got really worried because he had nothing ready to give a king, so he brought just a bit of pecorino cheese, also called cacio, and a bit of bread. He was afraid of the bad hospitality he was going to show, but Charles Magnus ate it with pleasure. Indeed the king took with him a few pieces of that cheese that he liked a lot. He said it was good to eat it while travelling, but who knows that didn't offer it to the Pope.

WHAT TO BUY
PIENZA = PECORINO DI PIENZA ( FAMOUS CHEESE )