Giant Cypress Tule Tree Arbol del Tule Santa Maria del Tule Ahuehuete

Fontfroide. Rooftops and bell tower of former Cistercian Abbey among cypress and other trees. The remaining buildings date from the twelth century.

Chateaux de Lastours Cathar castles. Chateau Cabaret dating from the mid-eleventh century set on hillside with cypress trees.

Chateau Padern. Ruined fortifications perched on steep rocky hillside above village amongst cypress trees with mountain backdrop.

Chateau Padern. Ruined Cathar castle stronghold on hillside with scattered outcrops of rock broom and cypress tree.

ITALY, Tuscany, San Gimignano, Traditional agricultural field patterns of vineyards, olive groves and wheat fields with a cypress lined road running through them on the northern edge of the town.

ITALY, Tuscany, San Quirico D'Orcia, The Belvedere Building on a hilltop surrounded by cypress trees sitting above olive groves and wheat fields in Val D'Orcia valley at sunrise on a misty morning.

Field of sunflowers and cypress trees with distant building near Buonconvento

Field of sunflowers and cypress trees with house behind near Buonconvento

Sunflowers and cypress trees near Volterra.

Farmhouse and cypress trees at sunset near San Quirico d Orcia.

Italy, Tuscany, Full moon in evening sky over farmhouse and cypress trees near Volterra.