Sweeping vistas, charming trattorie, medieval castles – Cortona offers a quintessential taste of Tuscan life. Life feels magical in this hill town, where a narrow winding street might spill onto a tiny sun-soaked piazza where an old Italian man might be singing. (Not a hypothetical: we speak from enchanted experience.) It’s not surprising that author Frances Mayes chose the town as the setting for her book-turned-movie, Under the Tuscan Sun.