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San Gimignano Slideshow
Travel Blogs from San Gimignano, Italy
San Gimignano
This is a top pick! ... were 72, which would have been quite a sight, like a little city of skyscrapers. Apart from that, there wasn't so much to do in San Gimignano. I didn't feel like visiting the church or museums or climbing any more towers, so I had a nice lunch, a glass of ...
"All That You Can't Leave Behind"
This is a top pick! Today was a day trip to San Gimignano - a 13th Century Etruscan hilltop town north-west of Sienna and a one hour ride on the No.130 local bus. It boasts 14 towers (from an original 72!) within it's walls, a main drag (barely one car wide) now filled with ...
Tuscan Hill Towns
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; You could see the ocean from Volterra and on a clear day - you can see Elba (maybe even Corsica). We played in the city park and wandered the streets. Unfortunately we arrived at San Gimignano just at sunset so will have to go back ...
Medieval Manhattan
... spectacular. It made for a slow ride as I was so engrossed in the views but …… Our destination was San Gimignano - Italy’s best preserved medieval town with its 14 towers, unspoiled streets and beautiful hill-top setting. Its full name ...
San Gimignano (San G for convienence)
... on the hill in front of us was this group of brick towers and buildings. Just the place to stay for a couple of days! San Gimignano doesn't allow any cars not owned by the residents inside the walls and parking costs a packet. We were lucky to nab ...
Tuscany
Bonjourno! We made it to San Gimignano without any trouble yesterday. I love taking trains!!! They are so easy and relaxing. At any rate, San Gimignano is amazing....it is a medieval village at the top of a mountain. It is a walled city that is ...
San Gimignano
... Siena, Florence, Bologna, and many other Italian cities used to be covered in towers, but then most of them were chopped off. San Gimignano preserved something like 14 of them. I'm hoping to get the chance to go again at the end of June, when ...
The Yellow Man and The Original Twin Towers
... in time - the 1500's to be more precise. It's as if nothing mattered before or after that. San Gimignano is the "Little Manhattan" of Italy with about 14 of it's 60 medieval towers surviving. Florence took over the town when the plague ...
San Gimignano
... actual town of San Gimignano (which I'm going to refer to as G-Town from here on out since I'm tired out typing out San Gimignano.) G-Town is another walled hill town known mainly for its distinct skyline due to its towers. Though it ...
Medieval Manhattan.
... looks like its going to be a work in progress. Jena is not very impressed. And Joel's manliness may have cracked the thin ice. San Gimignano on the other hand is so cool. This ancient town is famously know as the medieval Manhattan, because it was a place ...
So Much Wine!
... the salad and cheese. The Chianti is a red wine famously produced in the Chianti region to which San Gimignano belongs. Luigi explained that since Italy was part of the European Union the way agriculture works has changed substantially since the days of ...
Tuscany, Umbria, Liguria
... . They seemed to grow from the rock, seamlessly with their crenulated castles and bell towers. We lunched in Siena and moved on to San Gimignano. We all would have liked to spend more time there as it was a fascinating little place with an amazing crop of ...
Rain
... wonderful weekend. On Saturday we took our first field trip down to southern tuscany and visited the ancient towns of Volterra and San Gimignano before coming back into the city's vicinity to visit La Casa de Machiavelli, where the author of the ...
Siesta hour in Siena
What is most memorable about Siena. What touched me? How would I describe Siena, a colourful medieval village hidden in the Tuscany fields of gold in Autumn? At sunset, it was the silouette of the ...
I love Tuscany in the Fall
... The next day we took a train to Empoli, another train to Poggibonsi (I kept pronouning it Oingo Boingo to everyones annoyance), a bus to San Gimignano, and then a little city but to our campsite in Santa Lucia. It was a long travel day, and to top it all ...
Home of the Renaissance Men
... -tile roofed houses on the hilltops. In Poggibonsi, I still had to wait an hour for the connecting bus back to San Gimignano. There were a couple girls backpacking there that came in by train but didn't realize that they don't sell tickets on ...
San "G" for Gelati
This is a top pick! ... narrow cobbled alleys which you could easily get lost amongst. It would be a superb place to play hide and seek as child. In Italy food and wine is never far from our thoughts and there were lots of little Deli's and wine caves to tend to those ...
Under the Tuscan Sun
... off for San Gimignano (this bus was much less crowded). It was only 11 km, so we were there pretty quickly. San Gimignano has a great setting: perched right atop the highest hill around, it has views of all the vineyards and farmlands in the ...
San Gimignamo
... this morning. Poor timing again! Reached Poggibonsi in an hour, and after a coffee whilst waiting for the bus, arrived at San Gimignamo. Some label the town as the medieval Manhatten. Hopefully the photos explain why. We spent our time wandering the ...
Short stop
... wanting to arrive too early as we couldn't check in to our apartment until lunchtime, we made a slight detour to the town of San Gimignano, one of the places Matt and I visited on our trip a couple of years ago. A small walled medieval hill town ...
Tuscany--Great Views, Great Wine, Great Time
... just wandering around and window shopping in the little village. Wednesday, we decided to take a tour, which included a tour of San Gimignano and then a wine tasting at one of the local vineyards. Our tour guide picked us up at the hotel ...
Tuscany (St Miniato)
... Our 'farm' was just south of the small town of St Miniato. We used this as our base to visit: Lucca, Pisa, San Gimignano, Volterra, Sienna, Florence, and numerous hamlets we happened across when driving around. Driving was easy and we were very happy with ...
Not-so-"burnt" Siena
... ; It was no problem buying the bus ticket to Siena, and the bus left shortly before 9:00 AM. It wasn't full when we left San Gimignano, but more and more people got on as we went along and eventually it filled up. We got to Siena around 10:15 ...
San Gimignano
... not bad for 20 Euros a night. We have spent 4 nights here exploring the area. Friday morning we made an early visit to San Gim before the tourist coaches arrived. We climbed the tower for more great views of the countryside and tried to spy our tent. ...
