San Gimignano is the place for your beauty farms, the right place for your thermal vacations,
for quiet week ends full of snuggles and beauty treatments. San Gimignano is set in Toscana.
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Spas San Gimignano: hotel resort spa in San Gimignano.
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SAN GIMIGNANO
San Gimignano is a fabulous country, in the province of Siena, characteristic for Vernaccia and its towers, stands on a hill overlooking the Val d'Elsa.
San Gimignano is certainly a village worthy of a visit shortly. The center is a real jewel of art which has preserved the charm of an era past. Bellissima the Collegiate St. Mary Assunta built in the twelfth century. Inside there are frescoes of'300 Sienese that depict the stories of the Old Testament by Barna of Siena, Bartolo di Fredi and Taddeo di Bartolo and frescoes by Florentine'400. The chapel is the work of Giuliano da Maiano and Benedict with terracotta decorations.
The city is still one of the most exemplary and genuine testimonies urban medieval Tuscan region.
Initially Silva called by the founders, Muzio and Silvio, young Roman patricians fled from persecution for the conspiracy of Catilina, took its current name around the tenth century AD, by the name of a bishop Modena lived in the fifth century AD. During the raids of the barbarians, the saint, called, saved the city from the threat of Totila miraculously appearing on walls. From that day the people of Silvia decided, for gratitude and ingraziarsi forever for the protection of the saint, to change the name of the city in San Gimignano.
The development of San Gimignano happened in the Middle Ages, when he found himself in a strategic geographical location. The city, enclosed by the first circle of walls and sort of variant on horseback hilly street Francigena, became one of the main stopping places for all travelers.
From wherever you arrive, San Gimignano svetta on the hill, 334 meters high, with its numerous towers. Even today they are thirteen.
The first towers are born isolated in a fabric ginned, quite different from that compact that we see today. Unlike was especially the way in which we lived in the tower. The rooms inside were small, usually one meter by two, were few openings, while the wall thickness of around two metres, guaranteed cool in summer and warm in winter. Almost all the towers were addossate structures perishable materials like wood and earth. The tower was, during the Middle Ages, the greatest symbol of power, especially the fact that the process was certainly not constructive simple or economic. It was necessary to get the materials for the construction, transport them up in the city, put in place the structure, things that could afford only the most affluent families, dedicated to the merchant.
Economic growth, architectural and cultural di San Gimignano ends in mid-fourteenth century, when the council becomes subject of Florence. The plagues and famines of the second half of the century and first half of the fifteenth decimate the population. If at the beginning of the fourteenth century San Gimignano well counts 13,000 inhabitants, at the end of the XV inhabitants are reduced to 3,000.
The San Gimignano post-medieval is a land spopolata and decadence. The apparent deterioration sees the towers collapse and destroy the buildings.
In more recent times the city was able to protect his works so as to be declared by 'UNESCO world heritage.
Hotel resort spa and destination spa in San Gimignano
For an unforgettable vacation in San Gimignano, dedicated to relaxation and well-being, you can stay in one of the many hotels in San Gimignano, where the guesthas always reserved a service of welcome, hospitality and great comfort level, a fitness center property of 'hotel directly connected, managed by specialized operators.
The hotels in San Gimignano are normally managed by households owning it by many generations The Hotel resort spa, Terme and beauty farm in San Gimignano are the ideal place for a weekend devoted to relax and well-being in an atmosphere of pampering and romance, or for a longer vacation for a perfect Remise en forme in a hotel spa in San Gimignano.
Visit others City welfare in Tuscany: Bagno Vignoni, Chianciano Terme, Forte dei Marmi, Florence, Coast of the Etruscans, Monsummano Terme, in Montecatini Terme, San Casciano Terme, Siena, Terme of Versilia, Bagni di Lucca, Terme di Gambassi, Terme di Saturnia.
How to reach San Gimignano
By train to San Gimignano: San Gimignano is not reachable by train, but you can arrive at Poggibonsi from Florence Santa Maria Novella and from there continue by bus.
Milan Eurostar Central - Florence Santa Maria Novella: 2 hr, 45 min.
Eurostar Roma Termini - Florence Santa Maria Novella: 1 hr, 36 min.
Florence Santa Maria Novella - Poggibonsi: 1 hr, 10 min.
By bus to San Gimignano: bus from Florence with SITA / Between-in (50 meters from the station Santa Maria Novella) changing at Poggibonsi: 1 hr
By car to San Gimignano: From the A1 Milan-Rome, leaving Florence Certosa continue on the road to Siena. Exit at Poggibonsi North (34 km) and follow to San Gimignano (10 km).
By plane to San Gimignano: The nearest airports are the Leonardo da Vinci in Florence Peretola and the Galileo Galilei in Pisa, connected with the city centre and headquarters of various car rental agencies. From both takes about 1 hour by car to reach San Gimignano.
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