Day Tours - Excursions from Siena

San Gimignano + Volterra

Take a full day excursion to visit two of the most interesting towns in Tuscany. You’ll start in the morning visiting San Gimignano, well-known as the Manhattan of Tuscany with its many medievel towers built in the middle ages by the most influential families to show-off their wealth and power; today only 14 of the 70 built are still standing. The town was built along the Via Francigena, on an important road between Siena and other European cities to the north of Italy. For centuries used by the great religous soujourns on their way to Rome. The traditional products, since ancient times, are ceramics, the Vernaccia wine (the only top quality white wine produced in Tuscany) and saffron. After this first stop you’ll be on your way to Volterra, one of the lesser known Tuscan towns but very rich in history as it was founded by the Etruscans more than 3,000 years ago. The beauty of the countryside, with the unusual clay cliffs and the mix of different histrorical periods (the Etruscans museum, the Roman amphitheatre, the medieval fortress) make Volterra a most unique town.

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