Cortona for couples: sunset and golden hour by date

In Cortona the stone houses climb toward the fortress, and at blue hour every window below you lights up, one kitchen at a time.

In the reel: A couple sits at a small café table on a vine-draped balcony, she reading and he smoking, above a hillside Tuscan village of stone houses, terracotta roofs and cypresses, its windows lit at blue hour.

The drawing matches no single viewpoint, so Cortona is our pick: stone houses climb its hill toward the Medici fortress, and hotel terraces look across the roofs, not just out over the valley. You can sit on a balcony very like this one, though the exact angle is the illustrator's. Montepulciano and San Gimignano could also fit, but we didn't research them.