Satoma is a comprehensive response to Maremman weekender preoccupations, especially those that come to the fore in the hunting season.

FORBES: The Other Tuscany

Tales about bankers racing each other from Wall Street to the beach - with one enterprising weekender beating a helicopter-owning colleague by flying overhead in his Gulfstream business jet and parachuting out at the right moment - are thought to be mostly apocryphal.

BBC: Escape from New York