Artists will stay in a renovated casale with stone walls dating from the 1700s or in a traditional guest house, redesigned in the 1970s by a Swiss architect, serving as a limonaia for lemon trees during the winter months.

Fly into Rome or Florence. Pick up from the Arezzo train station, located a half hour drive from Monte San Savino, can be easily arranged.

Artists are encouraged to pursue their individual creative endeavour, to rest and create. An informal presentation of the artists’ work is encouraged during the residency. For the inaugural 2024 Tuscan Creative Lab, Canadian musicians Simon Gidora and Isabella d’ Éloize Perron will perform at the nearby castle Castillo di Gargonza, where once Dante was exiled.

Everyone staying at Tuscan Creative Lab is expected to treat the facilities with care and consideration for others.

Monte San Savino is a beautiful walled town with a Renaissance civic hall by Sansovino and arched stone entrance by Giorgio Vasari. The town is nestled into the hills above the famous, rich valley, Valdichiana, once mapped by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s.

In 2025, Tuscan Creative Lab announced an annual partnership with McEwen School of Architecture, Canada’s newest architecture school in the north which guides its students to align with nature, wood, Indigenous teachings and the highest tech design. In October, 2025 four top achieving students from McEwen were selected among 16 applications to travel to Italy with Professor Randall Kober. TCL hosted the students and Professor Kober for four nights to open a unique experience based at Tuscan Creative Lab overlooking a vast preserved bio-diverse forest. Students were given an opportunity to study the surrounding medieval hilltowns, ideal Renaissance cities such as Pienza and Siena, and to collaborate with a local sawmill to restore and reface an exterior bench in local oak for the TCL outdoor courtyard. Each year, McEwen will jury-select four students to travel to Tuscany to experience its world unique placemaking and to contribute one object in local oak or chestnut woods.

In 2025, Tuscan Creative Lab announced a new partnership with the Writer’s Trust of Canada. Each year, winners and short-listed authors of the major Writer’s Trust Awards will be invited to apply to Tuscan Creative Lab. The successful recipient of the residency will be flown by TCL to Italy, provided with a $500 stipend and hosted at the Lab for six nights. The visiting author might also be invited to speak at a literary event in Monte San Savino.