We arrived in San Gimignano in the late afternoon after our stop in Castellina in Chianti. It's probably the largest of all the towns we visited. It was also the busiest and most touristy.
San Gimignano is about half an hour from Siena, so it's really popular with tour groups coming from there and Florence.
The town is mostly famous for its large towers. It has 14 huge towers still standing, more than any other town in the region, most of the other town's lost theirs during the war.
It has all the things we had come to expect in the Tuscan towns, but also the qualities of a small city. There were heaps of leather and pottery shops, and I'm pretty sure we managed to visit every single one of them.
They also had a torture museum, which was a bit random. We thought about visiting since that's something I'd be really interested in, but it was too expensive, and we didn't want to waste the sun by spending it inside a museum!
What I liked most about San Gimignano was the flags everywhere. They had red and blue flags throughout the town, it was really awesome to wander through the cobbled streets looking at them all.
This seat was really burning my bum!
More amazing pottery
Just like Labyrinth!
very cool photos pasta looks great.
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