San Gimignano Self-Guided Audio Tour: Stone Towers and Saffron

Highlights

• 17 stops in the old town
• Towers and saffron stories
• Offline listening on the app

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Porta San Giovanni

   5min

   Stand at the door that every pilgrim, merchant, and bishop walked through for three centuries.

2. 2

   Torre e Casa Campatelli

   Pass by

   Step inside the only tower in town that kept its hollow heart.

3. 3

   Piazza Della Cisterna

   10min

   Search the wellhead for the grooves that hundreds of years of rope left behind.

4. 4

   Stop 4

   5min

   Look up at two towers built to answer a rival family across the square.

5. 5

   Piazza del Duomo

   10min

   Cross the square where Dante once stood and delivered a speech that history still remembers.

6. 6

   Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta - Duomo di San Gimignano

   Pass by

   Enter a plain stone box and discover why every surface inside explodes into colour.

7. 7

   San Gimignano 1300

   10min

   See all seventy-two towers restored in miniature, the skyline this town has lost.

8. 8

   Rocca of Montestaffoli

   10min

   Climb to the highest point and taste the wine Dante named in his greatest poem.

Before you go

Location