After lunch at the farmhouse, the next stop was San Gimignano, a medieval hill top fortressed town. There used to be over 70 towers as the rich would build them to live in to show how rich they are. The taller and the more you have, the richer you are. (So something haven't changed.) Most towns in Tuscany did this but San Gimignano is one of the only where most (~40) have survived.
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| Another view over Tuscany |
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| Entrance to the town. |
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| from the top |
The town has another claim to fame - it is the home of the world's best Gelateria (won twice in the last 10 years). And it was good. I tried the eggnog and it was seriously good.
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| Word's best ice-cream - eggnog |
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| Town square center. |
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| Towers. |
The final stop of the day was Pisa to see the famous leaning tower. It was getting dark when we got there but the view was still good.
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| The baptistry. |
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| Cathedral. |
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| The leaning tower. |
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| Really does lean |
The cathedral is oddly quite a distance from the town centre so there wasn't much to do there other than take some photos and visit the gift shop, where they had the usual array of tacky tourist bits but also some very nice things.
We got back to Florence at about 7pm and were knackered so just went to a restaurant round the corner from our hotel, which was so good. To be fair, every where we went for food was amazing. If I lived in Italy, a diet would be needed.
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