Elizabeth and Stefano at Borgo Pignano, Volterra, Tuscany
Tuscany · 16 September 2023

A frescoed room
in Volterra, and
a ring on the hill

Borgo Pignano · Volterra, Tuscany

Two days above the Val d’Era: a welcome dinner at the borgo on the first evening, and on the second a civil ceremony inside Volterra’s frescoed council chamber, a line of vintage Citroëns down the hill, and dinner under the loggia until the tables were cleared for dancing.

The estate, from above
The welcome dinner, the evening before
The loggia
The Val d’Era
Cypresses, and a contrail
The dress at the window
The shoes
His, in black and white
With the bouquet
On the stairs

Married under
a painted
ceiling

Volterra · Pisa

Volterra · Pisa
Volterra, on the way in
Walking into the chamber
The vault, in black and white
The harp
Married

An estate, and
a town, and
eleven miles
between them

Borgo Pignano stands on its own ridge with nothing around it but its own fields, which is what the drone frames are for: from the ground you cannot see that the place is an island. The welcome dinner and the wedding dinner both happened there, under the same loggia, twenty-four hours apart.

The ceremony did not. It was held in Volterra, in a room whose vaults are painted and whose walls carry six hundred years of coats of arms, and the drive between the two is half an hour of the best landscape in Tuscany. Which is why the portraits were made on the way, and not on the lawn.

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The doorway
The cars, waiting in the square
The dress, going down the steps
The borgo, from above
On the stone stairs
On the ridge, between the two

A red ring,standing ina field

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The ivy wall
Under it
The lavender path
Alone on it
The steps, at the end of the afternoon
The table under the loggia
And the last of the light on it
Dinner, once it had gone dark
The team Volterra, Tuscany
Venue
Borgo Pignano, Volterra
Ceremony
Volterra, in the town hall
Photography
Stefano Casati

Photographs by Stefano Casati.

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