Viareggio Refined Viareggio is also the Carnival town. Every year in the spring, streets and squares are decorated with flags and masks; for four weeks, paper-pulp giants appear everywhere, even along the seafront. Viale Margherita is delightful: it runs along the...
Siena Siena is a splendid city, and a World Heritage Site flooded with eternal beauty, by its medieval structures. Starting from ‘Piazza del Campo’ with its incomparable, uncorrupted architecture, with its very distinctive shell-shaped concentrically enclosing joyful,...
Saturnia Mythology has it that one day Saturn lost his patience with men, who were always fighting each other, so he took a thunderbolt and hurled it to earth, making warm, sulphurous water spurt from the crater of a volcano, calming everything. From that welcoming...
San Giuliano Terme Already a favorite of the Etruscans and ancient Romans, the “Bagni di Pisa” thermal baths near San Giuliano were introduced to European nobles in 1743, when the Grand Duke of Tuscany chose them as his summer thermal residence, then promoting them as...
San Casciano Val Pesa San Casciano Val di Pesa is filled with medieval-style churches and villas, like the Castle of Bibbione. Populated by the Etruscans, the earliest finds in this enchanting village date to Roman times: it was a “mansio” or outpost for changing...
San Casciano dei Bagni San Casciano dei Bagni dates back to the Etruscan-Roman period and takes its name from the famous ‘bagni’ (baths) immersed in the green oak and chestnut forests. The famous forty-two springs of water rich in mineral salts, sulphate, calcium,...
