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Art and Culture


The most interesting towns in Tuscany are well-known all over in the world and they represent a huge treasure both for culture and art. Beyond the most famous towns as Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Siena, there are little but not less important villages as San Gimignano, Vinci, Volterra, Certaldo which are heritage of the art and culture of the world.


Firenze

Florence still retains an exceptional artistic patrimony, the glorious testimony of its secular civilisation. Here is the home of Cimabue and Giotto, the fathers of Italian painting; Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, the renewers of architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio, the founding fathers of the renaissance; Ghiberti and the Della Robbia brothers; Filippo Lippi and Angelico; Botticelli and Paolo Uccello, the universal genius of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Their works, along with those of many other generations of artists, up to the masters of our own century, are housed together in the city’s museums.

 

Lucca
Lucca maintains the charm of a small and ancient Italian City-State. Its shrewd politics allowed it to remain free and independent over the centuries. It therefore remained miraculously untouched by the destruction of the wars and still maintains an artistic patrimony that is one of the most important in the whole of Tuscany.


The imposing tree-lined renaissance walls that completely surround it, the medieval roads flanked with towers and elegant shops and the charming Romanesque churches, are alternated with bright squares, creating new and unexpected perspectives in the eyes of the visitor.


Pisa

An ancient Roman port and an important Marine Republic, Pisa is no longer on the seafront now, but its splendid history is still very much alive in its monuments which are steeped in art and history. The narrow streets that open onto picturesque little squares with multicoloured markets, the noble embankments along the Arno with their splendid and majestic buildings, the charming Piazza dei Cavalieri and Piazza dei Miracoli, one of the world’s most famous monumental complexes along with the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the cemetery and the famous leaning tower, the city’s emblem.


Pistoia

Pistoia is an active productive and commercial centre, mainly associated with nursery gardening activities. At the same time it conserves a noteworthy old town which is Romanesque and Gothic in style and offers numerous sites to visit.
The city is also the main access gate to the Pistoia Mountains, the splendid natural oasis for tourism associated with winter sports and naturalistic walks during the summer.  

 

Vinci

Vinci, a medieval town situated on the hills of Montalbano, is famous as the birthplace of Leonardo. Here visitors can develop their knowledge of the great genius by stopping off to see the house where he was born and visiting the museum and library dedicated to him.

 

Montalbano

The territory of Montalbano extends over a surface area of 16,000 hectares between the provinces of Florence, Pistoia and Prato. The dominating countryside is hilly, with the vines that are still cultivated near the flatland or in some terracing, you will see a lot of olive trees on the higher slopes with chestnut forests, a typical example of induced vegetation, on the summits. The area of Montalbano is particularly suitable for walks and excursions, which you can embark on thanks to an extensive network of pedestrian and cycle trails which reach hilly areas immersed in greenery.