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• If you're going to spend some days in Tuscany don't forget to visit San Giminiano. It is really wonderful!
• I went there with my boyfriend 3 years ago and we spent 3 days in a special place. Tuscany reagion is beautiful but San Giminiano has got something special.
• San Giminiano is a small town. There are a lot of museums and galleries, but the most important attraction is the architecture as well as the atmosphere.
• We spent some days here staying at "Le Bifore". We had a beautiful view on the most important square called Piazza della Cisterna. This is a link of the apartment.
http://www.accommodation-sangimignano.it/camere/bifore/inizio .htm
• San Giminiano is well known all over the world for its towers. There are only 15 towers letf but in the past thy were 72.
• From car park ...
Advantages: Lots to do, relaxing, beautiful. Disadvantages: Pay toilets, might see Tony Blair
I visited SanGimignano last summer. I cant recommed it enough. For such an amazing place it is very unspoilt and largely unfound by many visitors to the area.
It is known as the "Ancient Metropolis" as there are lots of towers remaining. Also Tony Blair takes his holiday there every year.
SanGimignano is a small town with approximately 15000 inhabitiants. 15,000 lucky people in my experiance.
There are many great shops, interesting cafe's and loads of history. We took it in as part of a day trip which involved visiting Volterra. In heinsight I wish that we had spend a larger percentage of the day at SG. I feel that there was a whole lot more to find.
After coming back to England I have seen SG featured in a Holiday program. The presenter was sat under a conopy from a small bar in the large piazza. We too had sat there ...
From every angle of the town of SanGimignano the appearance is medieval: road, public square, civil, religious or military constructions. A visitor that for the first time walks into an alley of stone or bricks would believe that they have been cast back in time to a village crystallized in the 14th century. In this page I will only illustrate the history of this place through its fortifications.
Situated on a hill of 324 meters, at the watershed between the Elsa and the Era Valleys, earth of ancient settlements with archeological discoveries span from those of the ancient Etruscan period to the Late Roman Imperial Age, important center on the Roman road Clodia first and of the Road Francigena (as testified by Sigerico of Canterbury 990-994), SanGimignano always served a major role in the history of this area. Since its ancient ...
