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UNESCO World Heritage sites in Tuscany
Here are some monuments and sites that may, upon request, be included in your private tour in Italy and Tuscany. All our tours are custom-made and we will be delighted to include the requested monument or site in your tour itinerary.
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Tuscany UNESCO sites
 Florence - Historic Centre • • • Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of extraordinary artistic activity can be seen above all in the 13th-century cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore), the Church of Santa Croce, the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace, the work of great masters such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Botticelli and Michelangelo.
Our suggested tours Best of Italy Tour, Central Italy Tours, Middle Italy Tours, Milan Tuscany Rome Tour and Rome Florence Venice Tour include Florence, or a special Renaissance art tour can be designed for your needs. Please enquire.
 Pisa - Piazza del Duomo (Leaning Tower) • • • Standing in a large green expanse, Piazza del Duomo houses a group of monuments known the world over. These four masterpieces of medieval architecture - the cathedral, the baptistery, the campanile (the 'Leaning Tower') and the cemetery - had a great influence on monumental art in Italy from the 11th to the 14th century.
Our suggested tours Best of Italy Tour, Central Italy Tours, Middle Italy Tours, Milan Tuscany Rome Tour and Rome Florence Venice Tour include Pisa, or a special tour can be designed for your needs. Please enquire.
 San Gimignano - Historic Centre • • • 'San Gimignano delle belle Torri' is in Tuscany, 56 km south of Florence. It served as an important relay point for pilgrims traveling to or from Rome on the Via Francigena. The patrician families who controlled the town built around 72 tower-houses (some as high as 50 m) as symbols of their wealth and power. Although only 14 have survived, San Gimignano has retained its feudal atmosphere and appearance. The town also has several masterpieces of 14th- and 15th-century Italian art.
Our suggested tours Best of Italy Tour, Central Italy Tours, Middle Italy Tours, Milan Tuscany Rome Tour and Rome Florence Venice Tour include San Gimignano, or a special medieval tour can be designed for your needs. Please enquire.
 Pienza - Historic Centre • • • It was in this Tuscan town that Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice after Pope Pius II decided, in 1459, to transform the look of his birthplace. He chose the architect Bernardo Rossellino, who applied the principles of his mentor, Leon Battista Alberti. This new vision of urban space was realized in the superb square known as Piazza Pio II and the buildings around it: the Piccolomini Palace, the Borgia Palace and the cathedral with its pure Renaissance exterior and an interior in the late Gothic style of south German churches.
Our suggested tours Best of Italy Tour, Central Italy Tours, Middle Italy Tours, Milan Tuscany Rome Tour and Rome Florence Venice Tour can be amended to include Pienza, or a special architecture tour can be designed for your needs. Please enquire.
 Siena - Historic Centre • • • Siena is the embodiment of a medieval city. Its inhabitants pursued their rivalry with Florence right into the area of urban planning. Throughout the centuries, they preserved their city's Gothic appearance, acquired between the 12th and 15th centuries. During this period the work of Duccio, the Lorenzetti brothers and Simone Martini was to influence the course of Italian and, more broadly, European art. The whole city of Siena, built around the Piazza del Campo, was devised as a work of art that blends into the surrounding landscape.
Our suggested tours Best of Italy Tour, Central Italy Tours, Middle Italy Tours, Milan Tuscany Rome Tour and Rome Florence Venice Tour include Siena, or a special urban planning tour can be designed for your needs. Please enquire.
 Val d'Orcia • • • The landscape of Val d'Orcia is part of the agricultural hinterland of Siena, re-drawn and developed when it was integrated in the territory of the city-state in the 14th and 15th centuries to reflect an idealized model of good governance and to create an aesthetically pleasing picture. The landscape's distinctive aesthetics, flat chalk plains out of which rise almost conical hills with fortified settlements on top, inspired many artists. Their images have come to exemplify the beauty of well-managed Renaissance agricultural landscapes. The inscription covers: an agrarian and pastoral landscape reflecting innovative land management systems; towns and villages; farmhouses; and the Roman Via Francigena.
Our suggested tours Best of Italy Tour, Central Italy Tours, Middle Italy Tours, Milan Tuscany Rome Tour and Rome Florence Venice Tour can include the Val d'Orcia, or a special agricultural landscapes tour can be designed for your needs. Please enquire.
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