Beyond Florence

Great sidetrips and daytrips from Florence

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Fiesole - An Etruscan hilltown just a city bus ride away from downtown Florence.

Pisa - Pisa's "Field of Miracles" is a grassy lawn sprinkled with some of the most gorgeous Romanesque architecture in Italy, from the Duomo (in which local luminary Galileo discovered his law of pendulum motion by watching the swinging chandeliers) to the statue-studded Baptistery (home of an intricately carved pulpit and near-perfect acoustics). Oh, and there's also a famous church belltower that just can't seem to stand up straight, giving pizza restaurants the world over something to print on their delivery boxes...

Siena - Though it's possible to do Siena in a daytrip from Florence, I'd say do it right and take an overnight. This Gothic antidote to Renaissance Florence is an overgrown hilltown of fine food, brick palaces, and a laid-back lifestyle. It's civic buildings and the mighty zebra-striped Duomo are filled with some of the greatest examples of late Gothic painting in Europe, and its streets are crowded with strolling locals, not blattering automobiles...

San Gimignano - The "Medieval Manhattan" is unique in Italy for being the only town to preserve more than a dozen of its medeival stone towers, holdovers from the bad old days of the Middle Ages bristling the skyline above vineyards producing one of Italy's finest white wines...

The Chianti - Arguably the worlds most famous grape-growing and wine region fills the tall, closely-gathered hills between Florence and Siena...

Let someone else do the driving (and the guiding)

If you'd prefer to leave the planning, guiding, and transportation to a professional, here are the escorted daytrips from Florence offered by our partner Viator:

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