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From 8th May 2021 San Gimignano officially opened the 7th centenary celebrations of Dante Alighieri's death with 'La San Gimignano di Dante', the city of San Gimignano promotes a project which connects the city, its history, and the literary and linguistic heritage of the whole Italian nation. 'La San Gimignano di Dante' is an itinerary that begins...

Hiking in the countryside around San Gimignano

With a specially-prepared map, freely available on arrival, you can follow 6 walks which begin and end at Il Rosolaccio. The hikes are of varying difficulty and depending on your choice take between 40 minutes and 4 hours to complete. Each path has its own course traced on a map, textual description and can be followed on the internet while you a...

Discover every week a local producer's wine...

We begin this year a new, weekly event in which we invite a local producer to present his wine and olive oil at Il Rosolaccio. Every Thursday in the late afternoon, for 3 months from June to August, you can attend, free, a wine and olive oil tasting on the garden patio. At the beginning of each week we shall post details on Rosolaccio's noticeboard. Th...

Discover a great variety of local trips

Spring - Summer - Autumn Excursions to towns and cities of Tuscany (see page How to reach us). Hiking, map of walks from Il Rosolaccio, Horse Riding (5km), Golf at Castelfalfi (24km), Swimming-Pool at Il Rosolaccio, Mountainbiking, Wine and Olive Oil Tasting, Lakes, Ceramics & Painting Courses, Palio Horse Race (can organise seats), Concert ...

The Via Francigena is the ancient road taken...

The ancient road travelled by pilgrims from the 9th to 13th centuries from Canterbury to Rome, passes a few kilometers from Il Rosolaccio. We can help you retrace the Francigena on foot, by bike or on horseback for a blast from the past with the same lovely views Europe's pilgrims enjoyed. The road connects Gambassi Terme to San Gimignano (Route 9) and S...

Discover local Chianti and Vernaccia wines

We can recommend a number of wineries in the San Gimignano area each with different characteristics, producing reds ‘Rosso Chianti dei Colli Senesi’, whites ‘Vernaccia’, DOCGs, and different varieties of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. You can choose to visit top quality producers in the area or small family run wineries, full of passion and hearty explana...

Visit on foot the ancient citadel and nature...

In a hidden corner of the Valdelsa region, five kilometres from San Gimignano, visit the unmissable nature reserve and remains of an important medieval settlement, once known as Castrum Vetus, the oldest of 'castles' in our area. Castelvecchio was a town in the sixth and seventh centuries, following the decline of the Lombards, it became an important...

'The shadow of San Gimignano.' The offerer...

At the Archaeological Museum, Via Folgore 11, San Gimignano. Opening hours: Until 31 March: every day from 11am to 5,30pm. From 1 April: every day from 10am to 7,30pm. An exceptional bronze statue together with its ritual context found in the territory of San Gimignano are now on public view for the first time. The archaeological discovery took place ...

San Gimignano, Museum of Modern and Contemporary...

San Gimignano - Open until 1 September 2019 at the city's Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery, the great retrospective dedicated to Helmut Newton promoted by the Civic Museums of San Gimignano, produced by Opera-Civita with the collaboration of the Helmut Newton Foundation of Berlin. The exhibition project is by Matthias Harder, curator of the Helmut ...

'Warriors, horses and centaurs' is a unique...

Until 23rd April. Paolo Staccioli's exhibition "Guerrieri, cavalli e centauri" is in the Magazzini del Sale of Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. The exhibition, with about 50 works, curated by Antonio Natali, former director of the Uffizi Galleries, and by the art historian Ornella Cosazza, can be visited (admission 2 €) until April 23 2019, every day from 1...

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