Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park – mountain lakes, grasslands, waterfalls, moorlands and forests

Pietra di Bismantova mountain, Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park, Italy

Located in the north-central portion of Italy, you will find the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park. The park which was founded only recently back in 2001 is home to mountain lakes, grasslands, waterfalls, moorlands and forests. It is also centrally located nearby several other national parks. Some of the tallest points in Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park are the mountain peaks of

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Arezzo – one of the most important Etruscan cities

Piazza Grande, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy

The city of Arezzo can be found in the central portion of Italy; only 80 kilometres from Florence. The bustling city is currently home to more than 100,000 residents and today is a very popular tourist destination. Known as one of the most important cities in the days of the Etruscans, the city of Arezzo has a very long and

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Lucca – Tuscany’s Well Preserved Medieval Town

Duomo di San Martino, Lucca, Italy

A well-preserved medieval town – the birthplace of Puccini – Lucca is completely encircled by 17th-century walls, and lies in the heart of a fertile plain in northwest Tuscany, an hour’s drive from Florence and 14 miles northeast of Pisa. The Piazza San Michele is the site of the old Roman forum, hence the name of the Romanesque church here,

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Monteriggioni – The Pearl of Tuscany

Monteriggioni, Tuscany, Italy

In the heart of the famous region of Siena in Tuscany stands an old walled town, built in the year 1213 by the Sienese here as a forward defense post in their war against Florence. When one approaches the medieval walls, still standing nearly undamaged after all these centuries you have the feeling time has stopped beyond these walls until

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San Gimignano – The City of Towers known also as Medieval Manhattan

San Gimignano is a small medieval town located in Tuscany, with a long history dating all the way back to the 3rd century BC as one of many villages the Etruscan people founded in what we know as Italy today. Originally the town was known as Silvia, named after one of two brothers – Silvio and Muzio, Roman patricians who

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