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Tuscany Guide Italy
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| Siena: Piazza del Campo |
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To backdrop to Florence wealth of artistic and architectural heritage are elegant and refined streets and squares that give the impression of being on a medieval or Renaissance stage set. This is equally true of Siena with its famous Piazza del Campo set withing a ring of palaces in a triumph of medieval and gothic architecture; Pisa with its Piazza dei Miracoli, a scenographic green space in which rises majestically the renowned Leaning Tower, sometimes used to symbolise Italy in tourist pictures; Lucca, with its still intact medieval village structure; Arezzo, lying on a fan of hills; Grosseto, its old centre surrounded by the Medici walls - and all the other Tuscan capitals where roads, monuments and cathedrals are outstanding medieval works or refined expressions of the Renaissance. Merits and tourist attractions are not merely limited to artistic beauty: Tuscany also possesses a natural and enviromental heritage of considerable worth, with an extraordinary variety of morphological situations. Sea coasts and mountains, rivers, lakes, plains and hills are surprising for their variety and the rapid succession of landscapes that overlook delighful locations. The Chianti hills feature long rows of wines alternated with olive groves and broken by oak woods. Also characteristic of the Tuscan landscape are the rows of cypress trees that run majestic and elegant. Maremma may appear harsh, but it bears witness to the Etruscan civilisation and offers a coastline rich in lagoons and nature parks.
The Apuan Alps, renowned for their marble quarries, shine in the sun like snowfields. The Apennines ridge, true mountain land, has peaks that rise above 2000 metres, snow-clad ridges, great summit meadows and beautiful beaches and fir woods - the scenery changing colours with the seasons. The Tuscan region, which has two nature reserves, has created three major regional parks to protect this extraordinary natural heritage. However, the region's natural beauties do not end here. Also extremely fascinating are the Tyrrhenian coasts and islands that lie in a sea that ranges from deep blue to emergald green. Coastal pine woods stretch out behind a coastline made of long beaches broken by jagged rocks, in no way affected by a recent increase in infrastructures that offer good quality holidays in harmony with a territory of rare scenic beauty and a clear and unpolluted sea. Tuscany is also an ideal destination for lovers of good food thanks to its wholesome cuisine, the reflection of a land that - to use the words of Calamandrei - has "gift of simplicity and measure". The region's gastronomic tradition extends far beyond olive oil and Chianti, famous the world over. Every centre can boast its own speciality, which differs perhaps only slightly from that of the towns nearby. You will find dishes based on fish in Livorno and Viareggio, an extraordinary variety of soups, numerous second courses, captained by the international alla fiorentina steak, without overlooking the tasty far from elaborated desserts such as panforte, ricciarelli, pane dei morti and castagnaccio, to name only the most famous. All accompanied with good Tuscan wines.
(Contents taken from "Destination Toscana" by ENIT) |
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