--- title: Tuscany, Italy Is One of the World’s Greatest Places description: Find out why Tuscany, Italy is on TIME’s 2021 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places. canonical: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079319/tuscany-italy/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2021-07-20T10:35:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:51:11.679Z og:title: Tuscany, Italy: The World’s 100 Greatest Places of 2021 og:description: Find out why Tuscany, Italy is on TIME’s 2021 list of the World's Greatest Places og:url: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079319/tuscany-italy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2026e74310d5c9bc/698a1e09656a3f58c6bdbbeb/worlds-greatest-places-2021-001-Tuscany-Italy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Tuscany, Italy: The World’s 100 Greatest Places of 2021 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tuscany, Italy: The World’s 100 Greatest Places of 2021 twitter:description: Find out why Tuscany, Italy is on TIME’s 2021 list of the World's Greatest Places twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2026e74310d5c9bc/698a1e09656a3f58c6bdbbeb/worlds-greatest-places-2021-001-Tuscany-Italy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 20, 2021 # Tuscany, Italy Uffizi on tour by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  The Sense Experience Resort in Tuscany, Italy. The Sense Experience Resort in Tuscany, Italy.Courtesy The Sense Experience Resort Much of Tuscany’s appeal is its timelessness, so when something innovative happens, like 2021’s Uffizi Diffusi (Scattered Uffizi) project, take note. The brainchild of director Eike Schmidt, the idea is to disperse Renaissance works, along with visitors who would typically flock to Florence, to some of the region’s ancient towns, ­beginning with the hilltop villages of Poppi and ­Montespertoli. Meanwhile, ­Tuscany’s famous thermal waters will get new attention with the summer reopening of the Grotta Giusti Thermal Spa Resort (now a Marriott property) just outside Monsummano Terme, and the opening of the Sense Experience Resort in the southern coastal Maremma area, surrounded by just over 12 acres of private park and pine forest and providing access to a private beach. _—Julia Buckley_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079319/tuscany-italy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079319/tuscany-italy/"},"headline":"Tuscany, Italy","datePublished":"2021-07-20T10:35:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:51:11.679Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079319/tuscany-italy/","keywords":["franchise","Magazine","World's Greatest Places"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2026e74310d5c9bc/698a1e09656a3f58c6bdbbeb/worlds-greatest-places-2021-001-Tuscany-Italy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2026e74310d5c9bc/698a1e09656a3f58c6bdbbeb/worlds-greatest-places-2021-001-Tuscany-Italy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2021/6079319/tuscany-italy/","name":"Tuscany, Italy"}}]}] ```