Pienza - Italian Movie Trips

A small village, Pienza is the birthplace of Pope Pius II. His strongest desire was to have his hometown redesigned as a renaissance ideal and the architect Rossellino spent many years attempting it, with a carefully planned (Unesco World Heritage recognized) central square and several elegant palace facades, including the Pope's own palace, where you can see how he lived the Renaissance ideal on a smaller scale.
region name: Tuscany

Movies Filmed On Location In Pienza Italy:

The English Patient

Set in several medieval buildings and churches throughout Italy including the hotel and monastery at San'Anna In Camprena, The English patient tells the story of an anonymous British soldier, so disfigured by injuries that he has apparently lost his will to live. The ministrations of a selfless nurse steadily reveal the true nature of his many injuries.