Buildings
Florence Cathedral and Brunelleschi's Dome
Florence
Florence's cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, with its marble façade of green, white and pink, and its huge red-brick dome by Filippo Brunelleschi, co…
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Attractions
Michelangelo's David, Galleria dell'Accademia
Florence
The Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence is home to Michelangelo's David, the 5 m marble statue carved between 1501 and 1504, displayed under a skylit…
Historic sites
Piazza del Campo, Siena
Siena
One of Europe's most beautiful squares, a sloping shell-shaped piazza of red brick in the heart of medieval Siena, surrounded by palaces and overlook…
Historic sites
Torre Grossa and Piazza della Cisterna, San Gimignano
San Gimignano, Siena
San Gimignano is a small medieval hill town in Tuscany, famous for its skyline of stone towers, built by rival families as status symbols; 14 of the …
Attractions
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Florence
One of the world's great art museums, in a Renaissance building beside the Arno, with masterpieces such as Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera,…
Natural features
Val d'Orcia
Castiglione d'Orcia, Siena
The classic Tuscan landscape of rolling hills, cypress-lined roads, golden wheat fields and hilltop towns, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern T…
Places to stay
La Foresteria, Il Giardino di Fontarronco
Monte San Savino, Arezzo
An 18th-century villa in the green hills of the Val di Chiana, restored by the Illuminati family and furnished with antiques.
Buildings
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Pisa
The famous bell tower that began to lean while it was being built in the 12th century, because of soft ground.
Historic sites
Ponte Vecchio, Florence
Florence
Florence's oldest bridge, a medieval stone bridge over the Arno lined with jewellers' and goldsmiths' shops built out over the water.
Places to stay
Villa Olmi Firenze
Bagno a Ripoli, Florence
An 18th-century villa turned four-star-superior hotel, set in its own park and gardens in Bagno a Ripoli, about 4 km from the centre of Florence.
Historic sites
Volterra
Volterra, Pisa
A walled hilltop town in Tuscany, less crowded than nearby San Gimignano, with Etruscan, Roman and medieval layers of history.
Places to stay
La Siègià Spa Resort, Massa Marittima
Massa Marittima, Grosseto
A farm-stay hotel with a spa in the hills of the Maremma, just outside the medieval town of Massa Marittima in southern Tuscany.