San Gimignano beautiful towers
Duration 2 hours
A guided tour to discover San Gimignano, a UNESCO world heritage site for its beautiful old town center with its famous towers, pratically unchanged since the Middle Ages.
San Gimignano is one of the Tuscan towns that has best retained the urban layout from the Municipal period. In our itinerary we will walk the Via Francigena, around which the first village was formed on, starting from the Porta San Giovanni to the extreme opposite one, Porta San Matteo.
While walking through, the tour will reveal the secrets of Piazza della Cisterna and Piazza del Duomo, famous for the Palaces of the Podestà and the towers of the Salvucci Family; other interesting stops of our itinerary will be the viewpoint, situated on top of the town, and the church of Sant’Agostino with frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli.
Other visits that may be added to the tours are:
maximum duration 6 hours
Visit to the Municipal Museum. Here are preserved some valuable tables of the 13th and 14th centuries, the artworks of artists such as Coppo Marcovaldo, Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippino Lippi and Pinturicchio.
Visit to the Cathedral. The Duomo, or rather the Collegiata of San Gimignano, preservs two cycles of frescoes about the Old and the New Testament ,which are fourteenth-century works, the San Sebastiano by Benozzo Gozzoli and the chapel of Santa Fina with frescoes by Ghirlandaio.
Archaeological Museum and Pharmacy of Santa Fina. Here are preserved Etruscan finds found in the area and a collection of vases, tools, utensils and several „alborelli“ vases used in the past to preserve medicines.
Museum San Gimignano 1300. Here we can a miniature reproduction of the citiy i all ist detailes, particularly interesting for the lovers of history and urban planning.
