Surroundings

San Gimignano

San Gimignano is located in Val d’Elsa in the province of Siena, 56 km to the south of Florence. It was declared UNESCO World Heritage site for the characteristic medieval architecture of its historic centre. Its walls and fortified houses create an unforgettable view, in the heart of the Etruscan landscape. San Gimignano was a…

Volterra

Volterra is in the province of Pisa. The town, famous for the extraction and processing of alabaster, still has a beautiful historical centre of Etruscan origins (Only Porta All’Arco belongs to this period an is greatly preserved, and Porta Diana, which keeps the blocks of the jambs; most of the walls built with cyclopean blocks…

Firenze

Florence is the chief town of the homonymous province and of Tuscany. Important university centre and UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance and is universally recognized as one of the cradles of art and architecture, and known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, thanks to…

Siena

The city is known worldwide for its huge historical, artistic, landscape heritage and for its substantial stylistic unity of the medieval street furniture, as well as for the famous Palio di Siena. For these merit, in 1995 its historical center has been awarded by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In the city there is…

Chianti

The Chianti area offers many opportunities to its visitors. Medieval villages, castles and Renaissance houses, scattered over the territory between Florence and Siena. Ancient flavors, typical meals and products from an old land to taste drinking a glass of Chianti.

San Miniato

The historical centre of the town stands in a strategic position on a hill along the Arno river in the middle between Florence and Pisa; the town, until the definitive Florentine conquest, was the seat of fights between the two cities. See of diocese, San Miniato is an important economic and industrial centre in the…

Cerreto Guidi

Cerreto Guidi overlooks the rounded hills of Chianti and is featured by its historical centre with its Renaissance origins and its Villa Medici. The villa, located near the marsh of Fucecchio, was built between 1564 and 1567 for Cosimo the First, as a hunting house and territorial defence. The design of the building, characterized by…

Vinci and Leonardo

Leonardo da Vinci was born in Anchiano, a small town just outside Vinci, in a stone house in the heart of a stunning Tuscan landscape. Here you can travel to discover the history of the Tuscan genius, his life and his territory; after that you can visit the Museum of Leonardo in the centre of…

Pise

Beauty, charm and history! Among the most important monuments of the city there is the famous Piazza del Duomo, known as Mir-acle Square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with the Cathedral built in white and coloured marbles be-tween 1063 and 1118 in a Pisan Romanesque style, with the bronze gate of St. Ranieri by Bonanno…