Florence’s special geographical position makes the city an excellent starting point for day trips in Tuscany. Along the highway that leads to Siena, for example, you can visit marvellous historic towns like San Gimignano, with its Medieval towers, or Monteriggioni, situated on the top of a hill and surrounded by walls that enclose a tiny, peaceful hamlet. Siena itself offers visitors the ideal dimension of a town on a human scale, with harmonious proportions and magnificent monuments like the Cathedral, the characteristic Pizza del Campo, the Fonte Gaia and the beautiful Torre del Mangia, that towers over the outline of Palazzo Comunale.
From Florence, you can also reach the city of Pisa, where you can admire Campo dei Miracoli, and the suggestive Museum of the Sinopie, a unique place that is home to the preparatory drawings for the great frescoes of the Camposanto Monumentale (monumental cemetery). You can also travel to Arezzo, to visit one of the leading cities of the Tuscan Renaissance, full of monuments and works of art, like the Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca, in the Bacci Chapel in the Chiesa di San Francesco.
