
North west of Siena, on the hills of Val d’Elsa, stands the medieval town of San Gimignano.
San Gimignano, defined as the town “with a hundred towers”, owing to the presence of these impressive buildings symbolising power and wealth, till the thirteenth century counted seventy-two towers, fourteen of them are still standing today.
Due to the development of trade on the Via Francigena, crossed by...