Author Frances Mayes’s best-selling memoir turned film Under the Tuscan Sun follows a San Francisco writer (played by Diane Lane) who, after a bad divorce and ten-day Italy vacation in Tuscany, decides to relocate. Filmed in the idyllic Tuscan town of Cortona (which boasts an Etruscan museum), the main action takes place around the renovation of her villa. Known as Villa Laura in real life, it is also a popular wedding venue.

The Amalfi Coast’s picturesque Positano, where colorful houses precariously fill the hillside, is another scenic film location. While in Positano, be sure to tour the town on a Vespa, have a cocktail on the terrace of the Le Sirenuse hotel, take a boat to neighboring Capri, or party at Music on the Rocks, which is a nightclub located in a cave.

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