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Abbadia San SalvatoreAn Abbey, a Mine, and Christmas FiresThe abbey town of Monte Amiata: a crypt of more than thirty carved columns, the story of an English Bible, a mercury mine you can…Time needed: Full dayTownMonte Amiata
ArcidossoA Castle Town and Its Two ProphetsA castle town on Monte Amiata's Grosseto side, bound up with two religious visionaries a century apart: David Lazzaretti on Monte…Time needed: Full day, including Monte LabbroTownLunigiana
AullaThe Town That Was Erased and Built AgainAulla was almost completely destroyed in WWII and rebuilt from scratch. What survived — a 9th-century abbey and a Renaissance fort…Time needed: 2–3 hours for the abbey and fortress; longer if using Aulla as a baseTownGarfagnana
Bagni di LuccaWhere the English Came to Take the WatersBagni di Lucca Tuscany: hot springs, an 1837 casino, an English cemetery, an Anglican church, and the Shelleys' summers. Plan your…Time needed: Half day; full day with the Orrido di BotriTownVal d'Orcia
Bagni San FilippoA Free Hot Stream and Its RulesBagni San Filippo Tuscany: a free hot stream, white limestone, and years of rows over access. Read the rules before you go and pla…Time needed: 2–3 hoursTownVal d'Orcia
Bagno VignoniA Square of Hot Water Nobody Swims InBagno Vignoni Tuscany: a square built around a hot pool, mills that ground all summer, and the rules on bathing. Read before you v…Time needed: 2–3 hours, or half a day with Vignoni AltoTownLunigiana
BagnoneThe Borgo That Sounds Like WaterBagnone cascades down a hillside above a rushing torrent, crowned by a Malaspina castle and crossed by a medieval bridge. It earne…Time needed: 2–3 hoursTownGarfagnana
BargaItaly’s Most Scottish Town and Its Double SunsetBarga Tuscany: a walled hill town with Scottish roots, a sunset that happens twice, and a Buffalo Soldier's last stand above it. P…Time needed: Half day for the town; full day with Sommocolonia and Castelvecchio PascoliTownCasentino
BibbienaThe Practical Heart of Tuscany’s Most Forested ValleyBibbiena is the Casentino's largest town — a working hub with Renaissance palaces, a Donatello-school Madonna, and the Sagra delle…Time needed: 2–3 hoursTownGarfagnana
Borgo a Mozzano and CoregliaThe Devil’s Bridge and the Figurine MakersBorgo a Mozzano Tuscany: the Devil's Bridge, Gothic Line bunkers, a huge free Halloween party, and Coreglia's plaster-figurine emi…Time needed: 1 hour for the bridge; half day with Coreglia and the Gothic Line sitesTownMugello
Borgo San LorenzoThe Town Where Mugello Does Its ShoppingBorgo San Lorenzo is Mugello's market town — home to Tuscany's largest Romanesque church, an Art Nouveau ceramics dynasty, and a d…Time needed: Half dayTownCasentino
CamaldoliA Thousand Years of Silence in the ForestFor a thousand years, Camaldolese monks have lived in silence among the ancient forests of the Casentino. Visit the hermitage, mon…Time needed: Half dayTownMonte Amiata
Campiglia d’OrciaA Ring-Shaped Village on a Limestone RockA village on a limestone outcrop above the Val d'Orcia, with a street plan older than the year 1000, a turbulent family of viscoun…Time needed: 2-3 hoursTownGarfagnana
Camporgiano and Piazza al SerchioTuscany’s Upper Serchio ValleyCamporgiano Tuscany: an Este fortress full of Renaissance pottery, then Piazza al Serchio's farro fields and craft beer. Explore t…Time needed: Half day for bothTownMaremma
CapalbioDouble Walls, a Brigand’s Legend and a Tarot GardenCapalbio Tuscany beyond the VIP myth: a double-walled village, the true Tiburzi story, the Tarot Garden and Lake Burano. Read befo…Time needed: Full dayTownMonte Amiata
Castel del PianoPalio Town on Amiata’s Western SlopeA working town on the Grosseto side of Monte Amiata with a bareback Palio every 8 September, the road up to the Macinaie, and a pl…Time needed: Full dayTownMonte Amiata
Castell’Azzara and SelvenaDice, Cinnabar, and Karst WoodsThe highest comune seat in the province of Grosseto, named for a medieval dice game, with the cinnabar-mining village of Selvena a…Time needed: Full dayTownVal d'Orcia
CastelmuzioThe Confraternity’s Castle Above the Val d’OrciaCastelmuzio Tuscany: a walled confraternity village, San Bernardino's stone, and Sienese art, just outside the UNESCO area. Plan y…Time needed: 2–3 hours, including the Pieve di CennanoTownGarfagnana
Castelnuovo di GarfagnanaThe Capital a Poet Couldn’t GovernCastelnuovo di Garfagnana Tuscany: the fortress where Ariosto fought bandits, a September fair held since 1430, and the valley's b…Time needed: Half day for the town; ideal as a multi-night baseTownValdichiana
Castiglion FiorentinoThe Loggia That Isn’t Vasari’sCastiglion Fiorentino has a valley-framing loggia, Etruscan ruins, Benigni's birthplace, and a June horse palio — all without Cort…Time needed: Half dayTownVal d'Orcia
Castiglione d’OrciaTwo Fortresses and a Madonna’s SwallowCastiglione d'Orcia Tuscany: two fortresses on one ticket, a Simone Martini Madonna, and the valley's oil cooperative. Plan your v…Time needed: Half day, or a full day with Rocca d'OrciaTownMaremma
Castiglione della PescaiaA Lagoon Saved, a City FoundCastiglione della Pescaia beyond the beach: the Ximenes marsh, a Pisan castle, and Etruscan Vetulonia. Read our guide and plan you…Time needed: Full dayTownGarfagnana
Castiglione di GarfagnanaLucca’s Island in Enemy TerritoryCastiglione di Garfagnana Tuscany: 14th-century walls built to face the neighbors, and a barefoot Holy Thursday procession. Plan y…Time needed: 2–3 hoursTownValdichiana
CetonaFrom Neanderthals to ValentinoCetona sits beneath Monte Cetona, where Neanderthals lived 50,000 years ago. The medieval borgo above is one of Tuscany's most per…Time needed: Half dayTownValdichiana
ChiusiWhere an Etruscan King Built a Labyrinth (Maybe)Chiusi was one of the most powerful Etruscan cities — now it has an underground labyrinth, painted tombs, early Christian catacomb…Time needed: Full dayTownValdichiana
CortonaWhat “Under the Tuscan Sun” Didn’t Tell YouBeyond the bestseller, Cortona holds the third-longest Etruscan inscription, a Futurist mosaic pilgrimage, sphinx-guarded tombs, a…Time needed: Full day minimumTownLunigiana
Equi TermeCaves, Hot Springs, and a Canyon Between Two Mountain RangesEqui Terme packs Neanderthal-era caves, 27°C thermal springs, a zipline, and the 50-meter canyon walls of the Stretti di Giaredo i…Time needed: Half day to full day depending on activitiesTownGarfagnana
Fabbriche di Vergemoli and GallicanoA Cave That Breathes, a Cliff HermitageGrotta del Vento Tuscany: a show cave with three guided routes, plus the Calomini hermitage built into a cliff. Tips to plan your…Time needed: Half dayTownLunigiana
FilattieraThe Byzantine Garrison on the Pilgrim RoadFilattiera began as a Byzantine fortress called Kastron Soreon in 610 AD. Its Romanesque church of river pebbles is one of the mos…Time needed: 1–2 hoursTownMugello
FirenzuolaThe Town That Had to Start AgainFirenzuola was completely destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944 and rebuilt from scratch. Today it guards Tuscany's finest grey sand…Time needed: Half dayTownLunigiana
FivizzanoThe Florence of Lunigiana, Printed Before LondonFivizzano had movable-type printing before London, Medici walls before most Tuscan towns, and an earthquake that nearly erased it…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownValdichiana
Foiano della Chiana487 Years of Giant Puppets and GarlicFoiano della Chiana hosts Italy's oldest documented Carnival since 1539, and hides one of Tuscany's greatest concentrations of Del…Time needed: Half dayTownColline Metallifere
FollonicaCast Iron, Blue Flags, and the Gateway to the Mining HillsFollonica has a church built with cast-iron columns and rose window, Blue Flag family beaches, and the only train station serving…Time needed: Half day for the townTownLunigiana
FosdinovoThe Castle Where You Can Sleep in the Middle AgesFosdinovo's Malaspina castle has been inhabited for nine centuries and now operates as a B&B. Ghost legend included, sea views to…Time needed: Half day for the castle and village; overnight if staying in the castle B&BTownColline Metallifere
GavorranoFrom Europe’s Largest Pyrite Mine to a Theater in StoneGavorrano turned Europe's largest pyrite mine into a heritage park, carved a 2,000-seat theater from a quarry, and guards the lege…Time needed: Half dayTownMaremma
GrossetoA Medici Hexagon on a Reclaimed PlainGrosseto, Tuscany: Medici walls you can walk, Etruscan Roselle, and a 1943 story told truthfully. Plan your visit to the Maremma's…Time needed: Full dayTownCasentino
La VernaThe Mountain Where Francis Received the StigmataThe Franciscan Sanctuary of La Verna sits on a rocky mountain in the Casentino where Saint Francis received the stigmata in 1224…Time needed: Half dayTownValdichiana
LucignanoFour Rings, One Golden TreeLucignano's four concentric ring streets spiral to a piazza hiding the world's only tree-shaped reliquary. A Valdichiana village u…Time needed: Half dayTownMaremma
Magliano in ToscanaWalls, a Witch’s Olive, and an Etruscan RiddleMagliano in Toscana: medieval walls, the San Bruzio ruins, the witch's olive, and an Etruscan lead disc. Plan your visit with our…Time needed: Half dayTownMugello
MarradiWhere the Chestnuts Fall and the Map Gets ConfusedMarradi is where Tuscany meets Romagna — a chestnut town that produced Italy's wildest poet, hosts an October sagra reachable by v…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownColline Metallifere
Massa MarittimaTuscany’s Secret SienaMassa Marittima holds a Duccio Maestà, a Lorenzetti masterpiece, a fresco of phalluses, and Europe's oldest mining code — all in a…Time needed: Full day minimumMakerGarfagnana
Meet Birrificio La PetrognolaThe Brewery That Brews with FarroLa Petrognola brewery in the Garfagnana makes beer with local farro and chestnuts. Meet founder Roberto Giannarelli and plan a vis…Where: Località Tato, Colognola, Piazza al SerchioMakerVal d'Orcia
Meet CrocusBrandiThe San Quirico Farm That Brought Saffron BackVal d'Orcia saffron vanished for four centuries. Meet CrocusBrandi, the San Quirico farm growing it again, and learn how to buy it…Where: Vicolo del Vecchietta 5, San Quirico d'OrciaMakerLunigiana
Meet Giulia LazzeriniThe Woman Keeping Lunigiana’s Oldest Pasta AliveGiulia Lazzerini makes testaroli the way they were made before anyone called them artisanal — on cast-iron testi over wood fire, i…Where: Filattiera, Province of Massa-CarraraMakerMonte Amiata
Meet La Casina di GiannettoOlivastra Oil Named for a DonkeyA family olive farm near Seggiano, on the slopes of Monte Amiata, making Seggiano DOP oil from centuries-old Olivastra Seggianese…Where: LocMakerMugello
Meet Paolo CerriniThe Goldsmith Who Gave Mugello Its WinePaolo Cerrini left his Florence goldsmith workshop to plant Pinot Noir in Mugello — a region no one considered wine country. His I…Where: VicchioMakerCasentino
Meet Raggiolo’s Chestnut KeepersThe Village That Refused to Forget Its Bread TreeIn the tiny village of Raggiolo, the chestnut was once the only food that kept people alive. Today an ecomuseum and annual festiva…Where: Raggiolo, Comune di Ortignano Raggiolo, Province of ArezzoMakerValdichiana
Meet Stefano AmerighiThe Biodynamic Farmer Behind Cortona SyrahStefano Amerighi Cortona Syrah: meet the biodynamic farmer behind Tuscany's Syrah revival. Read his story and learn how to arrange…Where: Poggiobello di Farneta, in the comune of CortonaMakerCasentino
Meet TessilnovaThe Last Workshop Making Panno Casentino in the Town Where It Was BornPanno Casentino — the curly orange wool that Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's — has been made in Stia since the thirt…Where: Via Giovanni Sartori 2/4, StiaMakerMaremma
Meet the Butteri of AlbereseThe Maremma’s Working CattlemenMaremma butteri still herd Maremmana cattle at the Tenuta di Alberese. Meet the real cattlemen, get the Buffalo Bill story right…Where: Tenuta di Alberese, Località Spergolaia, AlbereseMakerGarfagnana
Meet the Farro Growers of the GarfagnanaItaly’s First Protected GrainFarro della Garfagnana became Italy's first protected cereal in 1996. Meet the 50+ mountain growers behind it and learn how to coo…Where: Consortium based in San Romano in Garfagnana; Garfagnana Coop processing center at SillicagnanaMakerMaremma
Meet the Fishermen of OrbetelloBottarga Makers of a Fragile LagoonOrbetello bottarga, eel, and Spanish-era lagoon recipes: meet the fishermen's cooperative founded in 1946, and learn where to tast…Where: Orbetello, Province of GrossetoMakerColline Metallifere
Meet the Moris FamilyThree Centuries, 3,600 Cypresses, and Maremma’s First Super TuscanThe Moris family has farmed the hills above the Gulf of Follonica since the 1700s. Their Avvoltore was Maremma's first Super Tusca…Where: Fattoria Poggetti, near Massa MarittimaMakerVal d'Orcia
Meet the Oleificio Val d’OrciaThe Growers Who Built Their Own MillMeet a growers' cooperative behind Val d'Orcia olive oil: its history, its mill, its DOP, IGP, and organic oils. Plan your visit t…Where: LocTownValdichiana
Monte San SavinoThe Sculptor’s Town That Lost Its SynagogueMonte San Savino gave Italy the sculptor Sansovino, Pope Julius III, and the Arezzo region's most important Jewish quarter — destr…Time needed: Half dayTownMaremma
MontemeranoA Cat-Flap Madonna and a Two-Star KitchenMontemerano Tuscany: a walled village with a Madonna cut into a door and a two-star kitchen, plus Manciano's cheese and prehistory…Time needed: Half dayTownValdichiana
MontepulcianoFirst DOCG, First Pievi, and One Very Steep Barrel RaceMontepulciano produced Italy's first DOCG wine and now its most precise subzone system. Add underground cellars, a barrel race, an…Time needed: Full dayTownColline Metallifere
Monterotondo MarittimoWalking on a VolcanoAt Monterotondo Marittimo's Le Biancane park, you walk free among fumaroles, bubbling mud, and bleached rock — Tuscany's most extr…Time needed: 2–4 hoursTownVal d'Orcia
MonticchielloThe Village That Writes Its Own Play Every SummerMonticchiello Tuscany: a walled village that has written and staged its own play every summer since 1967. Read our guide and plan…Time needed: 2–3 hours; a full evening in summerTownColline Metallifere
Montieri and BoccheggianoThe Mountain of Copper, Now Fossil-FreeMontieri hides Italy's only hexapetal church, a medieval gold brooch, and copper-red scoria hills — all powered by geothermal ener…Time needed: Half dayTownLunigiana
MulazzoWhere Dante Stayed and the Booksellers WalkedMulazzo sheltered Dante during his exile and gave Lunigiana its only hexagonal tower. Its hamlet Montereggio sent booksellers acro…Time needed: 2–3 hours for Mulazzo + Montereggio combinedTownMaremma
OrbetelloThe Capital of Spanish Tuscany, Built on a LagoonOrbetello Tuscany: Spanish walls, Etruscan stones, lagoon fishermen, and Roman Cosa next door. Plan your visit with our honest loc…Time needed: Full dayTownMugello
Palazzuolo sul SenioPopulation 1,000, and That’s the PointPalazzuolo sul Senio has 1,000 inhabitants, membership in Italy's most beautiful villages, a medieval reenactment honoring feudal…Time needed: Half day to overnightTownMonte Amiata
PiancastagnaioA Palio, a Rocca, and a Town Named for ChestnutsA Siena-side town on Monte Amiata, where four contrade race bareback every 18 August and the Crastatone celebrates the chestnut ar…Time needed: Half day; a full evening on Palio or Crastatone datesTownMaremma
PitiglianoThe Tufa Town With a Ghetto Inside ItPitigliano Tuscany: the real story of Little Jerusalem, the Orsini palace, sunken Etruscan roads and the sfratto pastry. Plan your…Time needed: Full dayTownLunigiana
Podenzana, Casola, and ZeriThree Villages Where One Tradition Defines EverythingPodenzana lives for panigacci. Casola's sole baker keeps a Slow Food bread alive. Zeri's shepherdess tends the last flock of a nea…Time needed: Each village: 1–2 hoursTownLunigiana
PontremoliThe Northernmost Town in Tuscany and Its Five-Thousand-Year SecretPontremoli guards the gateway between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna with a castle full of mysterious prehistoric statues, Baroque pal…Time needed: Full dayTownCasentino
PoppiThe Castle That Became Palazzo Vecchio’s PrototypePoppi's Guidi castle inspired Palazzo Vecchio, Dante fought at nearby Campaldino in 1289, and Taddeo Gaddi painted its chapel. One…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownMaremma
Porto ErcoleSpanish Forts and an Honest Caravaggio StoryPorto Ercole: which Spanish forts you can enter, what we really know about Caravaggio's death, and how to visit the Argentario. Re…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownCasentino
Pratovecchio StiaWhere Dante’s Exile Began and Tuscan Cloth Is Still MadePratovecchio Stia combines the castle Dante cursed in the Inferno, the Romanesque Pieve di Romena, the source of the Arno, and the…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownVal d'Orcia
RadicofaniThe Pope’s Border Fortress, Blown Up on PurposeRadicofani Tuscany: a papal fortress on a volcanic rock, a Medici posthouse, and Dante's bandit. Plan your visit to the Val d'Orci…Time needed: Half dayTownVal d'Orcia
Rocca d’OrciaThe Salimbeni Stronghold Where Saint Catherine StayedRocca d'Orcia Tuscany: the Salimbeni fortress of Tentennano, Saint Catherine's 1377 stay, and the private castle of Ripa d'Orcia…Time needed: Half day, with Castiglione d'OrciaTownMonte Amiata
RoccalbegnaLorenzetti Panels Beneath Two FortressesA small fortified village in the upper Albegna valley, with three panels by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in its parish church and a fire ri…Time needed: Half dayTownColline Metallifere
Roccastrada and Its VillagesBoulders, Battlefields and a Famous FrescoRoccastrada's villages grow from giant boulders, guard the castle in Italy's most debated fresco, and hold the memorial to Tuscany…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownVal d'Orcia
San Quirico d’OrciaAn Emperor, a Pisano Portal, and a GardenSan Quirico d'Orcia Tuscany: Barbarossa's 1155 visit, a Giovanni Pisano portal, and a Medici-era garden. Read our guide and plan y…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownGarfagnana
San Romano in GarfagnanaA Fortress Where the Past Talks BackSan Romano in Garfagnana Tuscany: the Fortezza delle Verrucole, where guides in period dress bring a garrison to life, and the Ore…Time needed: Half dayTownMonte Amiata
Santa FioraThe Sforza Town Built Around a River’s SourceA former Sforza county seat on Monte Amiata's Grosseto side, where the Fiora river rises and Andrea della Robbia's glazed terracot…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownMaremma
SaturniaFree Water, Paid Parking and a Roman GateSaturnia Tuscany, honestly: free bathing at the Cascate del Mulino, the paid car park, the Roman gate and the myth. Check the rule…Time needed: 2–3 hours for the falls; half day with the villageTownMaremma
ScansanoThe Hill Town Where Maremma Spent Its SummersScansano Tuscany was Maremma's summer capital for most of the 1800s. Discover the estatatura, Morellino wine, and Montorgiali, and…Time needed: Half dayTownColline Metallifere
Scarlino and the Singing SandsCala Violina, a Fortress, and Garibaldi’s EscapeCala Violina's quartz sand sings when you walk. Max 700 visitors per day, €1 booking required. Above it, Scarlino's fortress looks…Time needed: Half dayTownMugello
ScarperiaThe Town that Florence Built to Break a DynastyScarperia is where Florence built a fortress, knife-makers perfected their craft for 500 years, and Brunelleschi's only surviving…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownMonte Amiata
SeggianoOlive Country Under Monte AmiataThe lowest of our Amiata villages: olive country, with a Renaissance famine-vow sanctuary and an artist's sculpture garden of abou…Time needed: Half day; a full day with the Spoerri gardenTownMonte Amiata
SempronianoTemplar Legends and Open Cellars in Southern AmiataA quiet village on the southern edge of Amiata, with the limestone-perched hamlet of Rocchette di Fazio, an October open-cellar fe…Time needed: Half day to full day with the frazioniTownMaremma
SoranoA Fortress, a Cave Village and a Lost CountySorano Tuscany: an Orsini fortress, the Ottieri micro-county, the Vitozza cave village and thermal water. Read our guide before yo…Time needed: Full dayTownMaremma
SovanaA Cathedral, a Necropolis and 122 ResidentsA Sovana Tuscany guide: Etruscan tombs, the Cavone sunken road, a stolen gold hoard and a pope's disputed birthplace. Read before…Time needed: Half day to full dayTownValdichiana
Torrita di Siena and MontefollonicoDonkeys, Vin Santo and a Hilltop SecretTorrita di Siena runs a donkey palio with eight contrade. Above it, the tiny village of Montefollonico judges homemade Vin Santo f…Time needed: Half dayTownGarfagnana
Vagli Sotto and CareggineThe Village Beneath the LakeLago di Vagli Tuscany hides Fabbriche di Careggine, a drowned village that has resurfaced only four times. Its story, and what to…Time needed: Half day; full day with Isola Santa and a walk on the Via VandelliTownMugello
VicchioThe Small Town That Made Two of the Greatest Painters in HistoryVicchio gave the world Giotto and Fra Angelico — two painters who changed Western art. It also hid a radical priest, a rebel schoo…Time needed: Half dayTownLunigiana
Villafranca in LunigianaWhere the Watermills Remember and the Walls Still Close at NightVillafranca's watermills house Lunigiana's story of peasant life. A short drive away, the walled village of Filetto hosts one of T…Time needed: Half day for Villafranca + Filetto togetherTownMonte Amiata
Vivo d’OrciaHermits, a 22-Day Pope, and Siena’s WaterA small mountain village on Monte Amiata where medieval hermits prayed by the springs, a cardinal who reigned as pope for 22 days…Time needed: Half dayNothing matches yet — try another region or search term.