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86 reviews 9 travel blogs 13 photos Attraction Type:
Garden, Winery
TravelPod Member ReviewsCastello di Verrazzano Tuscany
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Castello di Verrazzano
gregad 5 contributions United States May 15, 2012
Beautiful gardens, great restaurant, amazing views, and wine. If you take the tour, also include the lunch/dinner option which we didn't, but it's a great value and a continued wine tasting.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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Castello di Verrazzano
Dating back to 1150 or earlier, this castle was was home to Giovanni da Verrazzano, born there in 1485, who discovered New York harbor, and later was honored in the naming of the Verrazzanno bridge in New York in 1964.
Simply, if you are in the Greve area, go there, take the tour and include the lunch/dinner.
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Tour through Tuscany
... back onto the bus to head to the castle in the Tuscany hills to have some wine. We wine tasted at a vineyard called Castello DI Verrazzano. It was 550 acers of land with wild boar as their hunt. The family that owned the Castle provided their farmers ...
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Weddings and wine
... was in the holiday spirit and we partied until the wee hours. Hangovers followed on Sunday. Today (Monday) we visited the Castello di Verrazzano winery and had a tour and enjoyed some wine tasting. We were sat on a table with Canada's equivalent of the ...
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Castello di Verrazzano
Dating back to 1150 or earlier, this castle was was home to Giovanni da Verrazzano, born there in 1485, who discovered New York harbor, and later was honored in the naming of the Verrazzanno bridge in New York in 1964. Simply, if you are in the Greve ...
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Florence Duomo & strolling down the Arno
... is very busy preparing for an event this coming weekend. Instead, she is able get me an appointment with the director of Castello di Verrazzano who is a great example of a local grower who has a strong marketing integration. I will be able to meet with ...
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Where do I begin?
... fun watching other people to the hold up pose! After about an hour and one half in Pisa we set off for Castello di Verrazzano or Verazzano's Castle. What a great time! We toured the grounds, which were beautiful...we went through the wine cellers, where ...
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Drinking our way through Italy
... still none too happy. Oh well. We had our chocolate cake, a glass of wine, paid our €15, apologized again and said we will return tomorrow. P.S. We have no plans to return tomorrow. We are going to Castello di Verrazzano, and then to ...
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Day trip to Siena
... down mountains in a massive bus on tiny, winding streets we arrived at this castle in the side of the mountain called Castello di Verrazzano Greve in Chianti Firenze. If you want some amazing wine, made to perfection by 2 hilarious and great Italian men, ...
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Associazione Aerostatica Toscana
... experience, we drove to Greve in Chianti, and Castello di Verrazzano, for a winery tour and five course Tuscan degustation. Castello di Verrazzano is located in the famous Chianti Classico wine production area, and dates back as far as 1170! Our host ...
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Where the Gallo Nero crows
... Chianti Region. One particular day was dedicated to all things Chianti - beginning with a tour and lunch at the Castello di Verrazzano in Greve. As it turns out this guy Verrazzano discovered New York. His voyage was pretty impressive...right on up ...
Castello di Verrazzano Map
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