Featured property: Villa Corsano
A superb 16th century Tuscan villa near Siena. La Villa di Corsano is situated in one of the most picturesque areas of Tuscany, at the start of the Sienese "Crete", that surreal landscape of wide, clay hills just South of Siena, a continual source of inspiration for artists over the centuries.
About Invitation to Tuscany
Why Tuscany and why go self-catering? Tuscany is a wonderfully varied region, with a friendly population, excellent food and wine, and stunning landscapes and art. Renting a self-catering property allows you to immerse yourself in the area and in the local culture - shop in the local markets, visit vineyards and taste the wines.
Help choosing the right place
It can be difficult to choose which is the best place for you, so please feel free to ring us or email us to pick our brains - we take plenty of trips back to Tuscany and Italy to visit the houses, explore and find things for you to do while you are there. All our agents (see the full list here) also visit Italy and see the houses for themselves - this means that we can all give you good, knowledgeable advice about the properties and about the area.
Online booking
You can now also book online - we always prefer to talk to you, but this can be useful if you are looking at the property of your dreams and we are not in the office - you can make sure the week or weeks you want are held for you. There is no difference in price and you can run your whole booking online and never talk to us, or manage everything via phone and old fashioned post.
Who are we
Invitation to Tuscany is a personal, family run agency. Started nearly 30 years ago, we still deal with the same area which we know well and love, renting villas in Tuscany. We now also have some properties further afield, in Umbria, Liguria and Emilia Romagna, but all houses have something we makes us love them, whether they are a small, romantic cottage or a grand old palazzo. We have built up a reputation over many years for personal, reliable service and will always give you the best advice we can.
The head office is based in North London, UK, but we visit all the houses personally and choose them according to whether we’d like to stay in them ourselves. Dan Wrightson sketches many of the houses and the surrounding landscapes and towns, sitting in the sun for hours with only a glass of wine for company. We are members of ABTOI , the association of British tour Operators to Italy.

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Win a book of watercolours and illustrations
Posted February 1st, 2010 by Dan Wrightson. Filed under Latest news
There are 10 bound books of Dan Wrightson's Tuscan Illustrations up for grabs - all bookings will be entered into a draw and the 10 winners will be selected on the 10th of March - so you have to get your booking in before then. Dan has been illustrating the Invitation to Tuscany brochure since aroun...
Sunday Times 10 Jan 2010
Posted January 11th, 2010 by Dan Wrightson. Filed under Latest news
"If there’s a more spectacular location in all of Tuscany, we’d like to know about it. The 15th-century Lookout Tower stands alone on a remote, rocky headland thrusting out towards Elba, cliffs and crags to the right, miles of beach to the left, forest behind and the glittering Tyrrhenian Sea in...
New Website finally online
Posted December 30th, 2009 by Dan Wrightson. Filed under Latest news
It's taken a while, but the new website is finally online, and we hope you will all like it. We've tried to keep the features you liked, and have added the ever more useful possibility for you to check availability and book a stay online. We feel that our personal knowledge of the area and of the ho...
Activity holidays and experiences in Tuscany
Private cooking lessons
Private cooking lesson with free day schedule. You work with your private chef Barbara or Valentina...
A full day's biking in Tuscany
This programme offers you bicycles, helmets and maps plus a guide who is familiar with the area so a...
For experienced riders only
A three hour round trip takes us to the highest point of the 'Montagnola Senese' and down again, rid...




