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A general view of the Val d'Orcia landscape at sunset in the Province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy, with rolling clay hills, isolated farmhouses, cypress tree allées, and cultivated fields stretching across one of the most celebrated rural panoramas in Europe. The Val d'Orcia, a broad agricultural valley extending south of Siena between Montalcino and Radicofani, was shaped over centuries by deliberate land management and aesthetic cultivation by the ruling classes of Siena, who transformed the valley into an idealized image of the Renaissance "good land" depicted in the paintings of artists including Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Landscape in 2004, the Val d'Orcia remains one of the most aecognizable and widely reproduced rural landscapes in the world, drawing photographers, filmmakers, and travelers year-round across its seasonal variations of green spring wheat, golden summer wheat, bare autumn clay, and misty winter fog.