"One of the most enjoyable musical enterprises of the Tuscan summer."
- Financial Times

La Foce’s annual chamber music festival Incontri in Terra di Siena welcomes a stellar line-up of international musicians in memory of Antonio Origo and his wife Iris, the Anglo-American author of "War in the Val d’Orcia."

Antonio Origo, an Italian nobleman, and Iris, his young wife, bought La Foce in 1924 and dedicated their lives to bringing progress and social change to the poverty-ridden valley. During the Second World War and in its aftermath, the Origos remained at La Foce and sheltered evacuated children and escaped prisoners of war. Iris gives a vivid description of the events that engulfed La Foce during these difficult years in her book "War in Val d’Orcia."

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