Nearly a week ago we drove from Foligno, our home base for exploring Umbria, to Siena, our homebase for exploring Tuscany. However, as we'd seen so many Umbrian medievil hill towns already, we were hill towned out. We did visit San Gimignano, famous for its numerous mediveil towers. There used to be 80 of them towering over the city, but now there are only about 10 left. They were build by 13th century aristocrats who each tried to out-do each other for the tallest tower in town. The city is best appreciated from the drive up the mountain below (not shown), and once up there it has great views of the famous Tuscan hill-side. I'll follow up with a post on our time in Siena, perhaps my favorite town yet. San Gimignano looks like this:
the correct spelling is: medieval
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