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Beautiful Cities And Landscape Of Tuscany Make A Dream Vacation
Tuscany is one giant work of art. Travel in any direction on the compass, it's impossible not to come across incredible buildings, castles, cathedrals, churches, towers, great squares, beautiful sculptors, art galleries, museums and the amazing landscape of central Italy, home to some of the finest wine producers in the world. The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), declared several locations of Tuscany to be protected, the historic centers of Florence, Sienna, Pisa’s Piazza Dei Miracoli [Square of Miracles], the beautiful town of San Gimignano with medieval towers that breaks the skyline. The magnificent region of Tuscany, Val d'Orcia has been inspiration to many painters from the renaissance to present times. Driving here was a real pleasure. Magnificent scenery rolling hills, hilltop towns villages and vineyards, all along the routes we drove. There was no shortage of restaurants that serve great Italian cuisine, sometimes we stopped for coffee and what a choice there is. We found it hard to make the effort to leave such a picturesque region and continue our vacation.
Lucca is one of the only cities, with an intact defensive wall. Birth place of Puccini [composer] and Dante, author of the Divine Comedy, father of the Italian language [The supreme poet], while in exile lived for a time in Lucca under the threat of death if he ever returned to Florence. Driving in Lucca was not a problem, well sign posted road system with very good car parking inside the city walls.
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In the neighborhood town of Collodi also had a hidden secret for us, the Pinocchio Park. We came upon this park by accident not having heard anything about it, this was a great day out for everyone young and old. Theirs also something for the horticulturist, the Collodi Gardens at Villa Garzoni probably the finest garden in Europe not to be missed.
....Click on the menu button and choose a video clip.... Florence is the birth place of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Dante Alighieri. This is the busiest city in Tuscany, it’s got it alm: architecture sculpture art, museums. Gold and silver jewellers that line the much photographed Ponte Vecchio, I found it best not to drive here, it’s very busy. Public transportation is the best option; we found it to be reliably.
Sansepolcro is a city on the border of Umbria. The writer Aldous Huxley’s comment about the Renaissance master Piero Della Francesca’s painting, The Resurrection, was the reason for us to visit Sansepolcro. Sienna. History suggests that the city was named after the Saina an Etruscan tribe who settled here, sites to visit Piazza del Campo is one of the most excellent squares you will find in Tuscany with its center piece the magnificent palace Palazzo Pubblico.
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