The sun-soaked hill towns of central Italy offer what to many is the quintessential Italian experience: sun-dried tomatoes, homemade pasta, wispy cypress-lined driveways following desolate ridges to fortified 16th-century farmhouses, atmospheric enoteche (tasting rooms) serving famously tasty wines, and dusty old-timers warming the same bench day after day. Hill towns are best enjoyed by adapting to the easier pace of the countryside.