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the cyclopic walls and ancient houses of the
Villages and outlooks 3rd Day: San Quirico d’Orcia - Bagno Vignoni - Etruscan people with many signs of the roman
Sant’Antimo - Grosseto (Km. 115)
archeology like the amphitheater.
from Tuscany We’ll visit San Quirico d’Orcia, a middle ages In the afternoon back to Grosseto, where we will
(Chiana Valley - Orcia Valley - Tuscany’s town surrounded by her original walls where visit the St. Francisco Church with Cross of Cima-
bue, the Dome and the archeological museum
you can still see 14 small tower build to protect
Archipelago - Maremma) the city from external attacks. The access to the with evidences from all the Maremma area. In
Horti, (garden), Leonini a jewel of the Italian gar-
the same museum, the medieval Siena’s tradition
6 days dening dated back at the 16 century. Among the collection will also be seen. Dinner in hotel.
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local attractions we recommend the church ‘Col-
1st Day: Monte San Savino - Chianciano (km 42) legiata dei Santi Quirico e Giuditta’ which repre- 5th Day: Giglio Island - (km.90 + Ferry 1 hour)
Monte San Savino is located in the hearth of the sent a rare example of Lombard style in Tuscany. Whole day dedicated to Giglio Island: we will
Chiana Valley in the province of Arezzo. We’ll reach Santo Stefano Harbor and we will board
the ancient village with its stunning Renaissance Curiosity: Who was St. Quirico? He was the child the ferry to the island that we’ll reach in about
beauties. Andrea Contucci was born in this vil- killed together with his moter at the time of ro- one hour. This is the second largest island of Tus-
lage also called the “Sansovino man” and you’ll man empire with emperor Diocleziono around cany and known for her cliffs, stunning views,
admire its great walls of middle age build and the the 304. medieval castle and of course unforgettable sand Business Proposals in Tuscany
two gates named ‘Porta Fiornetina’ and ‘Porta Bagno Vignoni is known as the square of the beaches. We will stop at ‘Baia Campese’ and visit
Romana’. We suggest the outlook from the cen- town is a former swimming pool where thermal the Giglio’s Castel inside the ancient village. Our
tral tower. water at the temperature of 52 degrees is still lunch will be based on sea food.
flowing. It has very nice outlook especially in
Curiosity: a famous attraction of the village is the winter when the contact of hot water with cold Curiosity: the name of the island is coming from
Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Vertighe, on the air is making some fog. All around stone houses, the latin-greek word ‘Aegilium’ that means goat.
hill located on the east side of the village. Fol- flowered balconies will make of this town one of In fact this was a goat’s island. We will go back in
lowing a legend of the 16th century, here the 7th the most beautiful corners in the world. In the Grosseto for dinner in hotel.
of July of the year 1100 a small group of angels afternoon we will proceed to the Sant’Antimo
transported a small chapel with the imagen of Abbey reach of important pieces and famous 6th Day: Natural park of Maremma
the Virgin Mary. because the French Monks of Cluny have here In the morning we will visit the Natural Park of
Dinner and hotel in Chianciano. their headquarters. Religious ceremonies are Maremma, also known with name of “Uccelli-
very suggestive since they are celebrated in latin na”: you’ll see wandering stocks and horses with
2nd Day: Montepulciano - Pienza - Montalcino (km language and followed by Gregorian songs and local cow-boys called ‘Butteri’. The extension of
92) mediaeval music. the park is joining the sea side, we can have a
In this day we’ll visit Montepulciano, a Middle walk in the pine-trees wood until we reach the
Age town as rarely you can see of this beauty. Curiosity: Following the legend this Abbey was outlet of the Ombrone river where you can still
It’s located on top between Orcia’s and Chiana’s made by Charles the Great in the 781. The king see the swamp of the Maremma. Lunch will be
Valley. Here the vineyard producing the famous and his army stopped here coming back from in a tipycal restaurant with tipycal dishes. We will
red wine “Nobile di montepulciano” have their Rome, since they were afflicted by an unknown visit a local farm with a show of a local cowboy
typical area. illness. An Angel appeared to Charles and told riding a wild horse.
him to prepare a medicine based on local herbs.
Curiosity: This place is quite interesting for the The cure was successful, the army saved, and Curiosity: From latin words “boum-ductor”,
movie’s fans since alla round the famous mov- for this reason the King decided to build here a cows’ leader and from the greek ‘buteros’, some-
ie “New Moon” was shot, and it belongs to the Church as thankful sign. thing like bus, cow and goad we arrive to the
vampire sequel “Twilight”. Dinner in hotel in Grosseto, the main city of actual word ‘buttero’. These persons are some-
We’ll proceed to Pienza known as the ‘ideal city’ Maremma area. thing like heroes since riding their horses they
of the renaissance, created by Enea Silvio Picco- were able to survive in the hostile nature of this
lomini that became Pope Pio The second. 4th Day: Archeological park of Roselle - Grosse- region. The job started before sunset and they
to (Km. 30) supposed to take care of stocks and eventually
Curiosity: Pienza is also the town of the ‘Cacio The Archeological park of Roselle lead us into also to lead in case the animals got lost. All this in
cheese’. Pecorino of Pienza is one the oldest the Etruscan-roman city part. Here you can find the swamp with a forest around.
cheese on the planet. It’s still made as thaou-
sands of years ago. It’s very tasty, and can get
through several stages of aging. The village is full
of small tipycal shopd ready to sell quite many
kind of sheep’s cheeses.
The visit continous for the fabulous ancient vil-
lage of Montalcino. It’s also surrounded by an-
cient walls with a castle inside. Waters arriving
from nearby Amiata Mountain are also providing
a thermal center. Going around the town you can
find several middle ages monuments starting
from the wall itself with ancirnt gates and some
towers. The town hall, (aged end of 1200), the ar- 55
cades of the Piazza del Popolo, (aged 14 and 15
th
th
century), the new classic style Cathedral build on
one older church coming from the 11 century,
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the sanctuary of the Succour Madonna, (built in
the 17 century, but based on a older church of
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the 15 century), the St. Egidio Church, called the
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Church of Siena’s people and the unforgettable
Churches of St. Agostinos, with paints of Siena’s
tradition, and St. Francisco Church connected to
the several beautiful cloister belong to the visit of
this day. Dinner in hotel.
Pienza
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