Town of Pienza in Tuscany, Italy Sep 28, 2025

Some towns evolve slowly over centuries. Pienza? It received a full rebrand in the 1400s from a pope who wanted to prove a point—and maybe show off a little. This tiny Italian town is perched above the Val d"Orcia, surrounded by rolling hills that look exactly like you think Tuscany should: cypress trees, winding dirt roads, the occasional sheep. It"s peaceful. And then you step inside the town walls, and it gets clever.

© zpagistock/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Sep 28, 2023Container ship near a commercial port in Thailand
Sep 28, 2024Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida, USA

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Sep 29, 2024West Cornwall Covered Bridge, Connecticut, USA
Dec 23, 2023Chinstrap penguins
Dec 29, 2025Étretat, Normandy, France
Oct 25, 2023Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA
Dec 20, 2024Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
Apr 23, 2024Library of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Mar 31, 2025Ostuni, Apulia, Italy
Aug 2, 2025Petroglyphs near Fruita in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, United States
Apr 3, 2024Rainbow across the Kakshaal Too mountains, Kyrgyzstan
Feb 16, 2025Humpback whale mother and calf
Jun 18, 2025Asian swallowtail butterfly
Sep 28, 2024Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida, USA
Jun 30, 2024Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
May 12, 2024Guanaco mother and baby
Jun 9, 2025Old City of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, Croatia
Sep 24, 2023Fraser River near Mount Robson, British Columbia, Canada
Jul 24, 2025Family of ashy woodswallows
Feb 13, 2025Lake Tyrrell, Victoria, Australia
Nov 4, 2024Grasmere, Lake District, Cumbria, England
Mar 8, 2025Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, Germany
Oct 24, 2023Füzér Castle in the Zemplén Mountains, Hungary
Mar 31, 2026Paradise Cave, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Vietnam
Mar 15, 2025The Temple of Saturn, Rome, Italy
Jul 19, 2024A young jaguar, Pantanal, Brazil
Dec 31, 2024Fireworks over Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada
Dec 12, 2023Poinsettias
Nov 20, 2025Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
Mar 9, 2024Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, New Mexico
Jan 2, 2025Ardez village, Graubunden, Switzerland
Sep 21, 2024Oktoberfest, Munich, Germany