Florence Day Trip

Trip Start May 14, 2008

Trip End May 30, 2008

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Flag of Italy Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Monday, May 26, 2008

On Monday, we took a bus tour to the towns of Siena and San Gimignano in the Tuscan countryside. It was our one and only tour experience. We boarded a bus with many other people all wearing matching stickers. We followed a tour guide throughout Siena but we were on our own in San Gimignano.

Siena is a cute town with a lot of history. The town is small but is further broken down into 17 sections or contradas each contrada has it's own history with it's own town hall and museum. The Campo Square is the main square in the town where the town hall is located. We didn't have time to climb the tower here since our tour group was meeting up soon to move on to the next town.

San Gimignano is an old medieval town. It's very small and we easily explored this entire town in less than an hour. At one point in time the town had over 70 towers. There are 14 towers remaining and we climbed to the top of one of the towers. From here we had a great view of the countryside of Tuscany and all of the vineyards and trees. Tuscany is very beautiful.