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San Gimignano is a pretty mediaeval walled city in Tuscany, Italy, famous for its beautiful towers.

Contents 1 Get in 1.1 By bus 1.2 By car 2 Get around 3 See 4 Do 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 9 Get out

Get in

By bus

Easily reachable from Florence or Siena, though you may have to change buses in Poggibonsi.

By car

You may also arrive by car. Park your car in the parking lot just outside the city gate.

Get around

On foot - it's very small, and you must disembark from your car or bus outside the city walls, in any case.

See

• The Collegiata, the nearest to a duomo (cathedral) in this small city, is beautiful and contains a splendid series of frescoes on Old and New Testament subjects.
• The Pinacoteca Civica (civic painting gallery/museum) in the Palazzo Pubblico is small but also has wonderful art inside.
• The church of Sant'Agostino in the northeastern part of the city contains a set of great frescoes on the life of St. Augustine by Benozzo Gozzoli.
• The panorama of the countryside from the Rocca (literally, a big rock) in the southwestern part of the city.
• The Piazza della Cisterna, a beautiful piazza with an old stone well (no longer used) in the middle.

Do

Buy

You will notice shops where free wine tastings are offered. If you consider the wines a good value, buy some bottles. You may find the wine expensive.

Eat

Drink

Sleep

• Torre Prima FarmHouse, [1] Torreprima holidays house is 4 Km away from the historical center of San Gimignano, and is situated on top of a hill from where it is possible to delight the beautiful view over the surrounding valleys of olive groves and vineyards.

• Hotel Semifonte, [2] Via Pisana, 1 I-50021 Barberino Val d'Elsa (FI) superstrada FI-SI, exit Poggibonsi Nord - Tel 055.8068.051 - Fax 055.8069.283 - E-mail: semifonte@semifontehotel.it.

It is centrally located for all tourist flows and cultural itineraries to Siena-Florence-Pisa-S.Gimignano, between the Val d' Elsa and the Chianti territory. On ancient itinerary "Via Francigena", Hotel Semifonte is today in the center of three important roads: SS49 of the Val d' Elsa, Provincial Str. for S.Gimignano, Supestrada Firenze/Siena and the highway A1 for Bologna and Rome.

Get out

You get out the same way you came in: By exiting the city gate on foot. Once you are outside the city walls, you can go to Siena, Florence, Volterra, and other Tuscan cities and towns.

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