Central Tuscany: Eight Tuscan Hill Towns: A Guide To The Valdichiana (Inside Tuscany: A Second Time Around)

Central Tuscany: Eight Tuscan Hill Towns New and Expanded 2016 to 2017 Edition Visit the Valdichiana towns of Civitella, Arezzo, Monte San Savino, Castiglion Fiorentino, Foiano, Lucignano, Cortona, and Chiusi. My books are for the repeat visitor to Tuscany. After you have seen Pisa, Siena, Florence, and San Gimignano where do you go? What do you do? My bet is that you want to see the smaller, less crowded sites and travel slower to enjoy the culture and some gelato. This volume of the Inside Tuscany: A Second Time Around series describes eight of the most beautiful hill towns in Tuscany helps you to enjoy the culture in the process: Set up a base up in Arezzo, neither too big nor too small, with excellent restaurants and a wealth of museums and churches. Visit Civitella in Valdichiana to learn its tragic history during a World War II massacre. Shop at the daily market in Monte San Savino while visiting the unique museum in its fortress tower. Find the Etruscan museum and dig in tiny Castiglion Fiorentino. Meander through small Foiano della Chiana and discover its hidden art treasures. Explore the small, well-preserved medieval town of Lucignano with its intact walls and fascinating Museo Civico. Spend a day at two at the best museums in Cortona, then sit in the Piazza Repubblica with a cafè and watch people go by. Study Etruscan artifacts at the superb Etruscan museum in Chiusi and then go underground to visit the old Roman labyrinth of tunnels and cistern. Information You''ll Find in the Text: cook with 11 authentic recipes, some from my Italian cousins, find a place to stay with information on an agriturismo, hotel, and B&B in Arezzo, find good restaurants and pizzerias, use GPS coordinates to find your way around, participate in the evening passeggiata and local markets, eat at the best osteria in Arezzo, La Capannaccia, get an idea on the mobile accessibility of sites. What is the Valdichiana? The Valdichiana is a large flat valley stretching south from the Umbrian border at Lake Trasimeno near Cortona to the town of Civitella in Valdichiana in the north. Originally a swamp, it has been drained several times through the last couple of thousand years and is now the breadbasket of Italy, full of fruit and olive orchards, crops of grain and corn, vineyards, and grazing land for the famous chianina beef, the source of bistecca Fiorentina. Praise from Readers for the "Second Time Around" Series I was delighted to find your book on the area on Amazon before our visit earlier this month. We went to Arezzo a few years ago, but this time, armed with guidebook we visited again. I wanted to let you know how helpful the book was. I had not noticed the bas-reliefs on the barrel vault of the main door of Pieve Santa Maria or visited the Museo Ivan Bruschi before, let alone the Telecommunications Museum which, like you, we stumbled on unexpectedly. I just finished your book and wanted to tell you I enjoyed it very much. I am planning to go to the Tuscany area next June for a wedding and it gave me a lot of usual information. Because of your book I plan on setting up shop in Arezzo for a few days. I have your guide books which have been very useful. Contacts and Social Media Contact: scott.grabinger@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/scott.grabinger LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/scott-grabinger-3890b073 Blog: insidetuscany.blogspot.com For book information: www.insidetuscanybooks.com For Tuscan itineraries: www.insidetuscanytours.com

• | Author: Scott Grabinger
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 372 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1533197849
• | ISBN-13: 9781533197849