Thematic tours
Wine tour
Trekking outside the city walls
The Etruscans
Romanesque Churches and Abbeyes
Walks through art,nature and wine
Food and wine Siena Walks
Villas, castles, gardens
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WALKS THROUGH ART, NATURE AND WINE
These are easier trekking itineraries but the same full of history and art. They will be conducted by environmental guides. These tours can be also added to other programmes of one or more days.
The Sienese Montagnola 4 hours A XIVth century great pictorial and architectural heritage made of hidden hermitages, abbeys, Romanesque churches at a stone’s throw from Siena .
Montalcino hd from an Etruscan castle to the abbey of St.Antimo with a tasting of Brunello wine
Val d’Orcia fd from the church of St.Quirico crossing the Crete up to Pienza with a snack or a simple country lunch along the way.
The Crete area hd to the discovery of the abbey of Monte Oliveto Major
San Gimignano hd walking across what remains of a mysterious Middle-Ages, hidden in the woods hamlet
The Chianti area fd going across Romanesque churches, famous wine-yards, farms once stone hamlets and a great wine to be tasted at the end of the excursion.
From the woods of the Amiata Mountain to the abbey of St.Salvatore fd
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The Hermitage of San Leonardo al Lago
Built in 1119 immediately outside Siena, it became a Romanesque- Gothic church in the XIVth century when its style was completely changed. Its façade made of a round arch with a splay door is really remarkable. Inside, XIVth century frescoes dedicated to the Virgin Mary by Lippo Vanni, embellish its nave and two ails. The masterpiece of this church is to be found in its dining hall: a Quattrocento Crucifixion frescoed by Giovanni di Paolo.
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