San Gimignano is a city of towers, it once had more towers and churches then homes. The towers were for ovdious reasons "invasion" but they were also used within the walls sort of like a Romeo and Juliet story when the families fought amongst each other. I love this town it sits on a hill tip and on a clear day you can see the snow capped mountains in the distance. Yes that's snow, not clouds.
This is just a view outside the town wall. I wanted to go to the Leonardo Di Vinci Museum. When I asked where it was here is what I was told. "Well madam It may be open or it may be closed, sometimes it says it's open but it's closed and sometimes it is only open for the mornings and sometimes it put a schedual out front but it very rarely follows it". I found the museum and it was closed.
Here are a few of the many towers. It's amazing to see such a small town with so many towers. I was told that a lot of them were destroyed during the war. I was going to say "what war", since the history of most of these towns is a waring history but I refrained since I knew it would take me way off course and fill me with more information then I needed at the moment.
The day I was leaving town was market day. It was great to see all the amazing trucks filled with all sorts of things from great food to cashmere sweaters. There is not enough room on a plane to take back all the things I find I can't live without. I'm refraining. One piece of advice don't take a lot of stuff on these trips it way to much schlepping.
This market had great olives. You could smell them from a distance they sort of pulled you to them. I wanted to buy a bunch of different ones but how in gods name would I ever get them back or even to the next town.
The town of Volterra. This town is over 3000 years old. The road to it curls up a steep mountain with views that took my breath away. I had lunch here a hearty vegetable soup with bread- of course. It was delicious. Off to Siena.Ciao
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