🇮🇹 Tuscany: a travel documentary
Channel: Guglielmo Biason
Date: 2016-08-07

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We are in the heart of Tuscany. We got only 3 days to visit the area around Siena: Volterra, San Gimignano, Monteriggioni and the Chianti hills. Despite it's Spring time, it's raining a lot.
We start from Volterra. Originally an Etruscan city, it flourished in the Middle Age before being ruled by Florence. 

Then we move to Monteriggioni, a small stopping point for the pilgrims on the via Francigena. The medieval "highway" that was connecting Canterbury with Rome

When we reach San Gimignano is pouring rain. The town is called the Manhattan of the middle age, for the numerous towers that characterise its skyline.

Siena is the the main centre in the area, and compared to the other small towns, it looks like a metropolitan city. In Piazza del Campo we admire the arena where twice a year the famous Palio is held. The Cathedral is equally beautiful with rich marbles and great paintings.

On the last day we got a truce from the rain, and with a bit of Sun shining, we run through the Chianti hills, stopping at a local winery to taste the famous local products. 

It is incredible the concentration of castles, churches, and medieval towns that still survive intact in Tuscany. In 3 days, we only could get a taste of it.