DAY TRIPS FROM FIRENZE AND ROMA

PIENZA - The perfect little Renaissance city where Romeo & Juliet was filmed. The landscape one passes through on the approach from the west is stunning.

HOTEL CORSIGNANO, Via della Madonnina 11, Tel 0578748501

SANT'ANTIMO - 6 miles south of Montalcino or 20 miles northeast of Grosseto is this sublime Romanesque church (9c) in a most romantic setting. Worth a journey!

TUSCANIA - Find a way to visit this Etruscan town near Viterbo in order to see the Church of San Pietro, my favorite in all of Italy. San Pietro waits in a mysterious setting with Etruscan tombs inside the building and legends of Etruscan royalty buried in the necropolis beneath the nave.

HOTEL AND RESTAURANT AL GALLO Tel 0761435028 www.algallo.it

LUCCA - A good place to stay when visiting Pisa.

HOTEL UNIVERSO, Piazza del Giglio 1, Tel 390583493678 Fax 954854
PICCOLO HOTEL PUCCINI, Via di Poggio 9, Tel 55421 Fax 53487
Ristorante del Giglio, Piazza del Giglio 2, Tel 494058
Da Giulio, Via della Conce 45/47 Tel 55948

Hotel Bramante, V. Orvietana 48, Tel 075 8948381 FAX 8948074 www.hotelbramante.it

Hotel:
***Residence Rinaldone, Strada Rinaldone, Tel 0761 352137 Fax 250678 www.countryholiday.it/rinaldone/uk.htm

Restaurant:
Antica Trattoria all' Archetto, Via S. Cristoforo 1

Ostia Antica

     Ristorante Cipriani, Via del Forno 11, Tel 06 56352956

AREZZO

        HOTEL & RESTAURANT "Villa Sassolini", Largo Moncioni 85, 52020 Moncioni Montevarchi (Arezzo), Tel: 055 9702246 info@villasassolini.it www.villasassolini.it

MONTEPULCIANO

See the movie HEAVEN (2002) with Cate Blanchett then go! The last 20 minutes of the film captures the intense beauty of the city and its landscape. Also, the final scenes of NEW MOON were filmed here in May of 2009.

     AGRITURISMO ~ La Fraternita, Via della Fraternita, 4, Tel/Fax: +39 0578 758215
                www.nautilus-mp.com/tuscany/agriturismi/fraternita/index.html

     RESTAURANT ~ Ai Quattro Venti, Piazza Grande (next to the Duomo)
                              Tel 0578 71 72 31

                            Ristorante dell Fattoria Pulciano, on the road to Chianciano,
                              Tel 0578 758711    www.pulcino.com

                            Ristorante Enoteca Godimento DiVino, Via Della Stamperia 3,
                                   Tel 0578 71 61 83  www.godimentodivino.it

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