When Antonio and Iris Origo acquired the estate of La Foce, they called upon the English architect Cecil Pinsent to renovate the Villa and the surrounding buildings and to create an extensive garden.

Pinsent (1884-1963), who had settled in Florence at a young age, had already worked on significant architectural projects such as the Villa Medici in Fiesole and the Villa I Tatti of Bernard Berenson.

The harmonious dialogue between buildings, garden, and nature places La Foce at the center of a historical testimony to the architectural and cultural evolution of Tuscany. The garden was created in four phases, between 1925 and 1939. A formal Italian garden, divided into geometric 'rooms' by boxwood hedges, extends from the house towards the Val d'Orcia and Mount Amiata.

Terraced slopes gently ascend the hill, where cherry trees, pines, and cypresses grow among the wild flora, and a long avenue of cypresses leads to a seventeenth-century stone statue. A travertine pathway, under a wisteria pergola, leads to the woods and connects the garden with the family cemetery, considered one of Pinsent's finest creations, where Antonio and Iris Origo rest, along with their son Gianni, who died at a young age.
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