Holidays in San Gimignano

An introduction to San Gimignano

Holidays in San Gimignano are about ensconcing yourself is an astoundingly beautiful medieval town perched high on a hill. Holidays in San Gimignano are about being surrounded with a patchwork quilt of beautiful countryside ranging from deep blue hills fading into the distance, blazing fields of bright red poppies, lush vineyards and deep green olive groves, and brilliant yellow acres of sunflowers. Holidays in San Gimignano are about eating simply prepared, rustic food that's simply unbeatable. Holidays in San Gimignano are about visiting Florence, Pisa and Siena and immersing yourself in great art until your eyes can't soak up any more wonders. In fact, holidays in San Gimignano are about everything a visit to Tuscany should be.

Let's start with the food. Your cheap holidays in San Gimignano will see you sitting in a vaulted brasserie with a vast bowl of traditional Tuscan stew and a wedge of ciabatta in front of you. Is there anything better? Well, perhaps the cinghiale, antipasti of wild boar – best try both!

Next, let's move your last minute holidays in San Gimignano into sight seeing mode. The town is known locally as the 'City of Beautiful Towers'. It's an apt epithet; its skyline is punctured by no less than 14 imposing look out towers dating back to the Medieval period.

And for gorgeous countryside, little beats summer holidays in San Gimignano. Stand on the summit of the nearby Torre Grossa and prepare to be amazed.

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