Siena – Land Rover

Siena rises out of the Tuscan hills in a fan of red brick and Gothic stone, its skyline still governed by the Torre del Mangia and the shell-shaped sweep of Piazza del Campo below it. Twice a year the square becomes a horse racetrack for the Palio, a rivalry between the city's seventeen contrade that predates the Renaissance and hasn't cooled since. Outside the walls, the Val d'Orcia opens into the kind of Tuscan countryside painters have chased for six centuries: cypress-lined ridgelines, vineyards, and the pale gravel of the strade bianche, the white roads that cut through Chianti and Montalcino wine country and give the region's spring cycling classic its name. They demand a different kind of driving discipline than tarmac, patient on the surface, precise through the camber changes.

Land Rover carries real off-road heritage with an interior that never feels like a compromise for it. Rent or hire a Land Rover with Zeus Prestige and it arrives exactly as booked, ready for the strade bianche through the Val d'Orcia, Piazza del Campo just as suited to a quiet arrival. Rent or hire your SUV with Zeus Prestige in Siena, delivered exactly as booked.

The Grand Hotel Continental, a converted seventeenth-century palazzo just off the Campo, has been the address for exactly this kind of Tuscan visit for years.

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