Castles in Siena

... the highlands of Scotland, etc. -the architecture (whether it's the pastel houses with the bright colored doors in Ireland, the castles on the Romantic Road in Germany, the chalets of the Alps, the chateau's in France or Gaudi's craziness in Barcelona) ...

... really do exist. Everywhere you look, these tiny little fortified medieval towns cling to the hill tops with their castles and towers. Just gorgeous! So Siena is located in central Tuscany, and is itself a hill town, albeit a bit bigger than most. The ...

... expect an ideal place in Tuscany would look like; rolling vineyards and olive groves, decorated with quaint orange hilltop towns and castles. The ancient vineyards all had their own luxurious family villa that looked like a castle, and even at some points ...

... speed. Today we are off to go horseback riding in the Tuscany hills, to see beautiful churches, deserted monasteries and castles ruins.  Just returned from horseback riding.  The ride to the stables was concerning.  The handsome young man ...

... awe of the rolling hills, vineyards, variety of trees, and old ruins that passed by me outside the train. There were even some old castles in the distance. The landscape was so fascinating that it really began to set in how lucky I was to be here and to ...

... cheaper way to buy coke!!!   Caught another bus on to San Gimignano for 5.50 E, again through pretty countryside with some huge castles on hills. This is such cute town and I liked it way more than Siena. It is famous for its towers that were a ...

... and call a cab.. However when we got outside of town it got much easier and we drove through the beautiful countryside seeing castles at nearly every turn. Our destination was a town called San Gimignano which is called the town of towers. From a ...

... towns perched up on the tops of hills and ridges. 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 ...

... .  The sun certainly is hot and it's the end of September, it must be scorching in August Visited lots of fortified towns, castles .....everything seems to be on the top's of hills which you have to walk up to get to.  Must have been a ...

... racing through our heads, or was that just vertigo?  The bus trip from Perugia was brilliant, past Lake Trasemino with its castles on islands, past fields of olives and grapes, and through beautiful hill-top villages.  I didn't know this world ...

... anywhere and run into one. All the back roads are quite charming and scenic. Took some photos just from the car of towers and castles in the distance. We ended up in Greve. In our information book on the area, left here in the Villa for guests, ...

... dreamer’s paradise. The golden and lush green hillsides were dotted with rows upon rows of vineyards with old farmer’s castles sitting atop the hillsides, looking down on it all as if telling everyone all around that the simplicity of life can ...

... to go back and just spend an afternoon there.  It was like a fairytale park, with colorful buildings that looked like castles, and tiled steps, and leaning columns everywhere. Here's the entrance. And then the stairs, right when you walk ...

... - was very beautiful and had an awesome view of Florence. We walked about 6km through pine forest, olive groves and past 11th century castles to the town of Steginoma. Here we stopped and had gelato - it went down really well as it was so hot. Was an ...

... lunchtime and get to Chiusi about 1.5 hrs later.  The countryside is stunning, beautiful green rolling hills with lots of villas and castles. We wait a short time and then hop on the train to Rome and that took about another 1.5 hrs.  We arrive ...

... comes a time when immersion takes over and it becomes a case of "castle, what castle",  "oh, I see it" (101 castles later).  However, there is always a little OMG, how old is this thing!). J hmm not much else to say, perhaps ...

... . Exposed beams for ceilings and terracotta ceiling lining. 360 deg views (italians do everything on top of hills – houses, castles ) arrived settled in and found a supermarket to stock up. Wonderwoman had arranged to go to Livorno to see rellos ...