Tuscany Travel Guide

Highlights in Tuscany

Limiting the choice of prime sights lo 10 is not an easy tosk in a land as rich ond varied as Tuscany. It’s storybook landscape is home to medieval hill towns, fabled wines and, as crucible of the Renaissance, an unrivalled collection of artistic masterpieces. Here are the best of the best.

1-The Uffizi, Florence A Veritable who’s who of greatest Renaissance maesters installed in former offices (Uffizi) of the ruling Medici Family
2-The Duomo Group, Florence Brunelleschi's noble dome, Giotto's slender belltower, Ghiberti's robust gates, Michelangelo's tortured Pletà and two panoramic terraces,all wrapped in red, white and greenmarble.
3-Pitti Palace, Florence Massive Medici palace with a painting collectionto rival the Uifizi, museums of porcelain, carriages, and modern art,and formal gardens.
4- San Gimignano A medieval fairy-tale town with stone towers and churches swathed in frescoes, surrounded by patchwork fields and terraced vineyards.
5- Campo dei Miracoli Pisa A grassy "Field of Miracles"The Campo is studded with masterpieces of Romanesque architecture:a Baptistryand Cathedral containing Gothic pulpits by Pisano and, of course, that ridiculously leaning, famous belltower.
6- Siena Travel Guide A striped giant of a cathedral stuffed with carvings, frescoes, Michelangelo's sculpturesand Bernini's chapel.
7- Siena’s Campo & Palazzo Pubblico This sloping brick scallop shell is Siena’s living room, its public palace a museum celebratine maestros of Gothic art.
8- Chianti The ultimate Tuscany idyll, a landscape of hills clad in grape vines, topped by the casteles, and doted with country-side trattorie servine Italy’s moust famous wine.
9- Cortona Tuscany in miniature medieval atmosphere, first class art,sweeping views, handcrafted ceramics and fine wines.
10-Lucca An elegant city of opera and arcaded Romanesque façades. The medieval towers and 16th century ramparts are now domesticated as small parks.