National Museum of San Matteo (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo), Pisa

Advantages: It's Italy, so you can expect good weather, nice people and amazing food, plus a well located airport served by budget carriers
Disadvantages: There's very little to do there

...for being disappointed in the lack of, well, leaningness, although you can’t deny it’s far from upright. (2) Museo Nazionale di San Matteo One of the cheaper museums in the region, at 4 / 2 Euros (2.50 / 1.25 GBP) for adults / students, children, OAPs, this is housed in a medieval convent over near the river, walkable from the center. Open 9am-7pm Tuesday to Saturday, and until lunchtime on Sundays, this is home to frescoes, ornamenty things and various other bits and pieces. Worth a look but it’s not the sort of museum you’d need to devote hours to. Situated in the Piazetta San Matteo in Soarta it also boasts and interesting selection of Pisan and Florentine art from the 12th to 17th centuries, with the vast majority of works portraying the virgin and child. (3) La Chiesa della Spina-Lungarno D’ambarcorti... Read review

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...with the first walled enclosure. The war against Volterra began in the 1130 and approximately twenty years after San Gimignano was virtually independent, allied with Florence against the neighbors of Poggibonsi and Colle Val D'Elsa. In 1207 the new town-walls (today in still in part recognizable in the city center) were built incorporating the villages of S.Matteo and S.Giovanni. Three gates of these town-walls still remain: to north the 'Arco Di Goro', to east the magnificent 'Arco de' Becci' still equipped with machicolation and to the west the arches in stone of S.Matteo. In 1229 the historical alliance of San Gimignano with the Florence became stronger. In these years the city skyline of Saint Gimignano was studded with numerous towers, symbols and testimonies to the fortune of the families that possessed them, and still today the city is known... Read review

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...There are two main museums in Florence that are worth visiting. In my last trip to Florence, I've chosen the Accademia. The reason behind this decision is because of the Statue of David by Michelangelo. The gallery is perhaps best-known for Michelangelo's David, removed after four centuries from Piazza Signoria, now exhibited in a specially constructed hall. Personally, I have come across many replicas of the statue, from places as far as Gold Coast Australia. The place is not huge, may only take up to 1 1/2 to finish looking at all the exhibition, but you will find many works by the famous Michelangelo. Some examples are his "Slave" series and his sculpture of San Matteo. Also featured in the gallery is an impressive collection of religious paintings from the 13th to 16th century.... Read review

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