A Day in San Gimignano: Tuscany’s Medieval Skyline

 

In Italy there are locations that seem to be stuck in time this is also the case with San Gimignano. As soon as you see its skyline, emerging out of the Tuscan hills, with its towers of stone breaking through the sky you have an impression that the world of the Middle Ages had never really disappeared.

 

It is more of a step into a tale which gets already underway and less of going to a town than spending a day here.

 

My day in San Gimignano started with a gradual and upward walk towards the historic gates. One smelled a little of cypress-trees and freshly baked pastry of locally-available cafes. So, as I came into the very piazza there was, I felt, a change of speed, as though the town himself were urging my pace against its better judgment, and causing me to linger and take in the place.

 As I would lean over the overcrowded cobblestone streets, I kept on peeking over them. Every tower is an individuality with some being tall and proud, others weathered yet dignified. Those towers were initially owned by the noble families who rated each other with the tallest tower a competition that by coincidence has led to the picture-perfect appearance of the town.

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 Lunch was a trifle, which we took in a terrace that commanding the waving Tuscan country. Words fail to characterize the sensation of sitting there and having a plate of fresh pappardelle and glass of local Vernaccia wine, the hills stretching down to sunlit layers below. It is not loud, but peaceable; not excessively rich.


In the afternoon later on I went to one of the points of view near the walls. It was one of the situations when everything stops. Footsteps behind me died away, the wind had soothed and in a moment the town belonged wholly to me. San Gimignano can provide such little unforeseen favors in time.

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