Seven Years in Tuscany

Seven years ago the author and her husband purchased a medieval ruin south of Florence called Il Borro. Since then the author has devoted most of her time and energy to restoring the ruin with infinite care and love to its former splendour as a palace. Architects, designers, decorators were engaged from all over the world, resulting in a monument of astonishing beauty, visited and admired by countless people.Seven Years in Tuscany is Amanda Ferragamo's fascinating account of how this restoration came about. Apart from all the architectural, historical and cultural interest of the work itself, she describes a human drama worthy of a television documentary.