Shore excursion to Siena & San Gimignano6
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Siena & San Gimignano

Rates per vehicle for this excursion:
sedan (1/4 persons) 635 €;
minivan (4 persons) 695 €.
minivan (5/6 persons) 750 €;
minivan (7/8 persons) 785 €.

Driving times:
Livorno to Siena: 1hr

Siena to San Gimignano: 45'

San Gimignano to Livorno: 1hr

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The rates include:

VAT (value added tax 10%), 9 hours of touring in the requested vehicle conducted by experienced driving guide.
Each additional hour will be charged 1/9 of the total of the tour's rate.

Rates do not include:
Entrance fees, meals, drinks, personal purchases or any thing not specifically listed as included.

Siena & San Gimignano

Siana - The Cathedral

After meeting right on the pier where your ship will dock in the port of Livorno, we will immediately head towards Siena. Walking through its XIII century streets, admiring its palaces, churches and squares you will feel the warmth expressed by Siena's old Latin motto "Cor magis tibi Sena pandit" - Siena opens her big heart to you -, which you will feel in its incredibly magical atmosphere. Having been during the middle-ages was one of the most powerful banking city in the world, it features some of the most important works of art in Italy such as the Duomo (Cathedral).San Gimignano, the famous town of the "fine towers", is a mediaeval jewel and therefore one of the main tourist attractions in the region. It rises on a one-thousand feet high hill and its towers dominate the Elsa River Valley (Val D'Elsa).

View of San Gimignano

Like many other towns in the area, also San Gimignano originates from a small Etruscan village (300-200 BC). It developed then into a town in the 10th century and was named after the Holy Bishop of Modena, St. Gimignano, who saved the village from the barbarians. The town owes its wealth and importance to the fact that it was on the "Via Francigena" which was the medieval route that linked France with Rome, and was traveled by pilgrims and merchants. On the way from Siena to San Gimignano we can stop for lunch at Castle of Monteriggioni built in the 13th Century to protect Siena from the attacks of the Florentines.

You can see it in the background of the famous painting by Simone Martini here to the right.

Return to the ship at about 5:30 p.m.

Simone Martini - Guido Riccio da Fogliano

     
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