SIENA - VOLTERRA - SAN GIMIGNANO

• 9 Hours
• morning departure

The tour start first morning, direction Siena and its Piazza del Campo.

We will continue the trip visiting Volterra, magic and mysterious art city; inside Volterra you can find the tracks of over three thousand years of history : the Necropoli dei Marmini and the l museo Guarnacci,the most important museum in Italy for the presence of many ruins regarding the Etruscan, Villanovian and Roman Art and Civilization. The Vallebona Roman Theatre, a roman theater and bath complex, can be seen from the hill-top city. In the upper part of the town you can see the imposing Fort characterized by the Donjon erected by Lorenzo the Magnificent next to exiting Rocca Vecchia. Shopping: The art of carving the translucent white alabaster still flourishes today in artisan workshops scattered throughout the city.

This is one of most interesting tour of Tuscany Car. In same day you will visit S. Gimignano, lovely town of evident Medieval origin. San Gimignano rises on a hill (334m high) dominating the Elsa Valley with its towers. Today there are only 14 of the original 72 towers. San Gimignano is pervaded from a medieval atmosphere; here the day spend quickly visiting the artisan's shops of ceramics and goldsmithes, is pleasant lose ourself among the characteristic lanes of the old town centre, little squares and ancient palaces,imagining historics moments made of struggles among Guelph and Ghibelline.

 

Photo: Piazza del Campo in Siena,Krzysztof Wysocki - Wikimedia Commons
San Gimignano – Veduta, Vignaccia76- Wikimedia Commons
Volterra al atardecer, Andrés Nieto Porras - Wikimedia Commons