Smart Travels Europe with Rudy Maxa Florence Italian Hilltowns
Seen nationally on AMERICAN PUBLIC TELEVISION FLORENCE, a glorious city, rich in art, brings the Renaissance to life. Visit the great museums ‘the Uffizi, Bargello, and Accademia, as well as the landmarks of the Renaissance’ the Duomo, Bapistery and Giotto’s Tower. Beat the crowds in peaceful Oltrarno. An excursion outside of town leads to a Medici villa, a sleepy Tuscan town and a museum with inventions by Leonardo da Vinci.
TIPS on how to buy quality leather products. Castles, vineyards, walled cities and a fierce medieval rivalry that lingers today’it’s the ITALIAN HILL TOWNS. Home base in dramatic Siena, with its intensely competitive Palio horse race. From Siena explore the multi-towered town of San Gimignano, watch grapes being harvested at a winery and drop in on the cheese festival in Pienza. Then south to Rudy’s secret pick’the haunting hill towns of Pitigliano and Sovana. In Umbria discover Etruscan tombs, visit the home of St. Francis of Assisi and quaint Gubbio.
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