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by Ingo Hans
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Our walks through the gentle landscape of Tuscany take us through a countryside that is timeless. Tuscany is a region well suited to a walking pace and there is much to absorb. Here are some of the best preserved medieval towns in Europe with their Romanesque churches and buildings. We walk through a varied countryside of rolling hillsides, vineyards, olive groves and forests alive with colour. Tuscany offers many gastronomic delights: pecorino cheese, wild boar dishes and porcini mushrooms. And need we remind you, it is also Chianti wine country. Linking the best of the Tuscan hilltop towns, we start in the old Etruscan town of Volterra, where you can visit the acropolis and tombs, and enjoy a warm up walk from the village of Pignano. We spend two nights in Volterra. Our trail then leads through forested hills, occasionally crowned with tumbledown stone farmhouses, and old olive groves with cypresses. We visit San Gimignano noted for its famous towers. It is often called Tuscany's Manhattan, but it is perhaps the best preserved medieval town in Italy. From Colle Val D’Elsa, we take farm tracks and white roads, "Strada Bianca", which lead us on to Monteriggioni, a medieval fortress town, and from there we pass through thick chestnut forest to the village of Santa Colomba, and then by vehicle on to Siena, the archetypal Tuscan town. You can extend your stay by walking from Siena to that other great Italian art centre, Florence. It takes 4 nights/ 5 days and takes you through the heart of the Chianti vineyards and a landscape that will already be familiar from the old paintings you have already seen along your route. It hasn't changed very much.
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