[2025 San Gimignano Attraction] Travel Guide for Torre Grossa (o Torre del palazzo del Podesta) (Updated Apr)

#OverseasTravelTactics 🌟 List of Beautiful Small Towns You Must Visit 1️⃣ San Gimignano | The City of Towers Soaring into the Sky 🏰 📍14 Stone Towers Standing on a Medieval Skyline ✨ Best Way to Enjoy 🔹 Climb Torre del Glossa and take photos of the fantastical cityscape like The Lord of the Rings 📸 🔹 Taste the World Champion Gelato at Gelateria Dondoli! The "saffron flavor" in particular is surprisingly delicious✨🍦 🔹 At dusk, Via San Matteo looks like a scene from a classic movie with its backlit towers🎞 2️⃣ Pienza | A painting-like view🎨 📍 Renaissance jewels in the Val d'Orcia ✨ Tips for taking great photos 🔹 Dash to the observation deck early in the morning! The olive groves and cypress trees shrouded in mist are so beautiful they look like geometric patterns🌄 🔹 Walk the paths to find colorful artisan-made pottery. The owner of the shop (a grandfather) might even recite a poem by Dante 📖💕 🔹 Stay at a farmhouse agritourism, and enjoy the starry sky at night and the sound of sheep bells in the morning 🐑🌌 3️⃣ Siena | A terracotta-colored love letter 💌 📍 A town where medieval beauty still lives on ✨ A heart-shaking experience 🔹 Lie down on the cobblestones of Piazza del Campo and experience the Italian-style "luxury of doing nothing" ☀️💆♀️ 🔹 Travel back in time 800 years while listening to the bells of the Torre del Mangia 🕰️ 🔹 Enjoy the spectacular view of the sunset painting the rooftops honey-colored from the roof of the Opera Museum 🍯 4️⃣ Montepulciano | A town of wine and film 🍷 📍The hill town where the movie "Twilight" was set ✨ Fun for adults 🔹 Tasting Nobile di Montepulciano in a 12th century wine cellar 🍷✨ 🔹 Play the soundtrack of the movie "A Tuscan Holiday" while driving... The cypress trees outside the car window seem to dance to the music 🎶🚗 🚗 The best driving route in Tuscany (plus tips for safe driving) 🗺 Route: San Gimignano → Pienza → Val d'Orcia → Montepulciano ✨ Highlights 🔹 If you find the "S-curve Cypress Road", don't hesitate to stop! If the light is right around 4pm, it will look like golden silk 📸✨ 🔹 If you shoot the "small ear-shaped church" in Val d'Orcia with a long focal length lens, you can capture the fantastic contrast between the wheat field and a lonely tree 🌾 🌿 Let's go on the most relaxing trip of your life to Tuscany! 🍷🚗

#FreeHotelStay San Gimignano is a small town in the Tuscany region of Italy that is a World Heritage Site and is known as the town of beautiful towers. There is no train service, so we recommend traveling by bus from Florence. It takes about 50 minutes from Florence to Poggiponsi, and about 20 minutes from Poggiponsi to San Gimignano, so you will need to change trains. San Gimignano, located on a small hill, has 14 towers, and it is surprising that at its peak there were more than 70 towers in this small town. The towers were built as symbols of rights disputes, but some are now part of houses, and few are open to the public. Anyone can climb the 54m tall Torre Grossa, the tallest tower in the town and attached to the Palazzo del Popolo, which houses San Gimignano's town hall. The stairs and the space at the top of the tower are not very large, but we recommend it as it is a great spot to see the whole of San Gimignano's townscape below.

San Gimignano is beautifully situated in the south of Florence and is one of the most beautiful towns in Tuscany. At that time, the aristocratic family who controlled the city built 72 towers about 50 meters high to show their wealth and power. The city is full of rare and heavy Romanesque stone towers, which makes the town win the title of City of Baita. Years passed, and there were 14 existing stone towers in the year, the highest of which is 54 meters high. It is the only tower that can be opened to the public. There are many beautiful murals in the Podesta Palace downstairs. From the top of the tower you can overlook the panoramic view of the town and the idyllic scenery of Tuscany in the distance. Shuijing Square is the central square of San Gimiano. It is named after a 13th-century well on one side. This well was the most important source of water for the residents of the ancient city. Now the well has dried up. As the town's tourism is increasingly developed, in order to ensure the safety of tourists, it is also on the iron mesh, perhaps because the beauty of the mountain city and the life style of the middle ages make people forget to return, many tourists have thrown coins to the well to make a wish, looking forward to A day to meet again.