A double choice is possible in this area, the best of Tuscany region, the time available allows to visit only three of these towns, on your choice...

Take a look and then decide between:

San Gimignano - Siena and Monteriggioni
or
San Gimignano - Volterra and Monteriggioni

 

San Gimignano

Only one hour and half to reach the medieval village of San Gimignano, passing through the most wonderful Tuscan countryside. The rolling slopes are covered with vineyards and silvery green olive grows, like a picture. Only this spectacle would be more than enough to enjoy this tour! Fortified walls and watchtowers show power and prosperity in the Middle Ages. Only thirteen of the town's original 76 towers remain. Enjoy your time to stroll the narrow cobbled streets taking San Gimignano's sights, Piazza della Cisterna, the Collegiata in Piazza del Duomo, a Romanesque cathedral known.

 

Volterra

From San Gimignano hal an hour and the driver will park in the center of Volterra. The Etruscans town sits on a rocky plateau and is protected by medieval ramparts. Takes a tour in the Piazza dei Priori, one of Italy's most impressive squares and visit the Etruscan Museum, known all over the world. You are in the place where Italy's history and language were born! Volterra is also known for its fine frescoes.

 

Siena

First step at San Gimignano then half an hour to reach Siena! There you will see the walls and gates that enclose a city centre that is composed of narrow, winding streets and old buildings and palaces. The centre of the city is dominated by a large, shell-shaped square called the Piazza del Campo which is the focus of Siena's civic life and where take place the "Palio delle Contrade", a dangerous horse race round the square that is the most popular festival in Siena . Siena's great cathedral was begun in the 12th century in the Romanesque style but was transformed in the 13th century into one of the finest examples of Italian Gothic. The town also serves as a market for the surrounding agricultural area, which produces cattle, cereal grains, olives, and, above all, wines, its Chianti being perhaps the best known of all Italian wines.

 

Monteriggioni Castle

Included in the tour we will offer you a short stop at Monteriggioni Castle, the most majestic and powerful castle of the Italian Middle Age. In fact, due to the type of its fortification, Monteriggioni remained an invincible fortress for three centuries. From the time of its construction in 1213, it resisted every siege, thus ensuring freedom to the Republic of Siena until 1554 when, without any battle, was conquered by the Florentines and that because of a betrayal only!

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