San Gimignano, Siena surroundings

The 15 towers of San Gimignano looks like a mirage in Siena countryside. They emerge in the landscape offering the same view that could had a medieval traveller, with one difference, in the Middle age the towers were 72. You can enter in the town passing through one of the two doors and you are immediately catapulted in a Medieval atmosphere, in spite of all the tourist that walk into the village. One principal road go up in direction of the place of San Gimignano and then go back down, the ancient medievals workshops has been substituted by the more modern souvenirs shops. That’s the price we must pay to the modernity… but we are at once rewarded for it looking at the wonderful frescos of the Cathedral and of Sant Agostino Church, without forget the civic museum of the town hall. An interesting break would be the Medieval torture museum for the ones who wants to discover the human ability to invent sufferance and death methods.