SAN GIMIGNANO room
San Gimignano is a tuscan municipality of 7.105 habitants sited in Siena province. Thanks to its characteristic medieval architecture of its old city centre, San Gimignano has been declared an humanity heritage by UNESCO. San Gimignano, in spite of some nineteenth and twentieth-century restorations, has preserved its thirteenth and fourteenth-century appearance and it is one of the greatest exemples of the municipality's age urban organisation. San Gimignano is especially famous for its sixteen medieval towers that dominate the landscape and give it the nickname “Manhattan of the Middle Age”. This municipality is an agricultural city known for Vernaccia wine production and for saffron cultivation. Vernaccia wine is one of the greatest white wines producted in a small area of Tuscany, between Siena, Pise and Florence, coextensive with San Gimignano's municipal territory. This wine is known and appreciated in the world entire and it has been the first italian wine with the trade of Registered Designation of Origin (DOC) in 1966.
How to get to San Gimignano
Going along A1 motorway, Milan-Rome, south way, exit Florence Certosa.
Taking junction Florence-Siena, following Siena way, exit North Poggibonsi,
following directions to San Gimignano. From south: going along A1 motorway,
Rome-Milan, north way, exit Valdichiana. Following directionsto Siena; taking
junction Siena-Florence, exit North Poggibonsi, following San Gimignano.