Italy's Tuscany region is renowned for its photogenic hilltop towns and for being Italy's best destination for wine lovers. For all its fame and glory, Tuscany is a vast expanse, close to the same size as New Jersey, and it's got plenty of less-touristy destinations scattered among its valleys and vineyards.
Pistoia is one of its best, a medieval city of tightly wound streets with 14th-century walls, lively piazzas, and a unique and explorable network of underground tunnels. Plus, it's surrounded by the beautiful, quintessentially Tuscan landscape of lush groves and is even called Italy's "capital of green" for its legacy of nursery gardening.
