If you are planning a small trip outside the city for the weekend in Tuscany, we strongly recommend you to come and visit the medieval village of San Miniato!
In addition to being a wonderful city full of history, monuments and excellent food, it’s also a place where you can spend a peaceful weekend full of activities for everyone, whether you are a couple, a group of friends or a family!
Medieval village of San Miniato
Once you arrive you can enjoy a walk through the alleys of our city with a guided tour that will allow you to get to know this wonderful village with its beautiful stories, its monuments, its legends and its panoramas that will leave you breathless!
Once finished you can enjoy an excellent lunch in one of the most famous restaurants of our city, tasting typical dishes and excellent wines overlooking our surrounding panoramas.
In the afternoon you can have fun in the alleys of San Miniato by participating in our treasure hunt, a unique experience for all ages that we are sure will conquer you: you will have to go around the city in search of clues that will lead you to solve the mystery behind the curse of Barbuccia witch!
The next day you can enjoy one of the most beautiful experiences that our areas can offer you: the truffle hunting! ! A walk in our woods in search of one of the most renowned products on earth, the delicious San Miniato truffle: you’ll learn the stories and legends accompanied by an expert truffle hunter and his dog. You can then enjoy this delicious “nugget of the earth” by tasting our tagliolini with truffle or our quail egg!
(The white truffle is the one for which San Miniato is best known but can only be found in the autumn period: during the year there are other varieties)
Once lunch is over, to end your weekend in Tuscany, you can treat yourself to a guided tour of one of the most famous towns in the surrounding area: Vinci.
Home Town of Leonardo da Vinci
This village is best known for being the birthplace of the great genius Leonardo da Vinci and thanks to our guided tour you can learn about its history by visiting the Leonardian museum, where you will find the scale reproduction of his most famous inventions, the church of Santa Croce where the genius is said to have been baptized, the Villa del Ferrale with the faithful reproductions of all his paintings and the birthplace in Anchiano.
So what are you waiting for to book your weekend in Tuscany? Lots of experiences for everyone are just waiting to be lived!
