San Gimignano was a small Etruscan village as the tombs and the archeologist finds demonstrate. San Gimignano started its history around X century and it had a big development during the Middle Age. Thanks to the Via Francigena which crossed it and along which the first buildings of the city, the towers and the tower-houses were built. At the beginning the towers were 72 but now they are only 14.
round the small fortified nucleus the quarters of San Matteo and San Giovanni were born and in the second half of 200 they were closed by walls which have been preserved till today. Within these walls the city has kept intact. From the domain of Siena it passed to the domain of Florence in 1353 and the masterpieces of Benozzo Gozzoli, Ghirlandaio and Pollaiolo were joined to those of Lippo Memmi, Barna and Taddeo di Bartolo. The city of San Gimignano is one of the clearer testimony of Medieval town planning of Tuscany. San Gimignano is a small town and one day is enough to visit it
The most important monuments are located in the town centre: the Collegiata or Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, the Palace del Popolo or Palazzo nuovo del Podesta’ (you can visit here the Civic Museum and the art gallery), the Palace of Podesta’.
The tower houses which characterize the outline of the city are located in Piazza del Duomo, in Piazza della Cisterna, in Via San Matteo and in via San Giovanni.
In order to have a complete visit of this city, you don’t have to forget to visit the Church of Sant’Agostino and the Montestaffoli fortress
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