Tourist routes for Holiday in Tuscany Italy Guide Island of Elba, Versilia, Chianti and cultural landscapes

Tourist routes for Holiday in Tuscany Italy Guide Island of Elba, Versilia, Chianti and cultural landscapes.
THE REGION: The image of the Tuscany is tied first of all to the colours of the country side and hills, to the very conserved and evocative natural landscapes. Speaking about the region it is then impossible to forget the artistic and architectonic riches: the Tuscany represents the crib of the national cultural patrimony, and in the same time the regional dialect has been the matrix of our Italian language.
The heart of the Tuscany is constituted by the Valdarno, where you’ll finde some of the greatest and more active cities of the region, like Arezzo, Florence, Empoli, Pisa. Among the central hills, which represent the more typical landscape of Tuscany, the work of the nature is melted harmoniously with that one of its people in the alternation of wine yards and olive trees, hedges, cypresses, pines, fields of cereals. The Pine forests and the Mediterranean spot are instead present in the coastal areas, where are the Malariche areas.
Holiday in Tuscany Italy Guide Island of Elba, Versilia, Chianti and cultural landscapes.
Also not being comparable as importance to that one of northern Italy, the industry however is sturdy and diversified; there are many equipments, but, not compatible with the beauty of the landscape and the cleanness of the atmosphere.
The Tuscany, with a population that exceeds 3 million and a half persons, is the ninth Italian region as number of inhabitants. The density of total population is a little bit inferior to the average national one, but it abundantly exceeds it in the northern provinces, where it is a bigger industrial and tourist development (Florence, Prato, Livorno and Lucca). The density is instead much lower in the province of Arezzo and Siena,a mostly mountain area , and still more in the province of Grosseto.
The demographic course of the region is in light decrease, because of the constant reduction of the births. The inner mobility of the population, beginning with the seventy’s, has favourite the increment of the centers comprised in the Florence-Carrara-Livorno triangle, therefore they have grown, in terms of inhabitants, also the cities of Arezzo, Grosseto and Massa. It continues constantly, in parallel, the population decrees of the Apennine and high hills areas.

TO SEE: The cities of art: Florence with its immense artistic-cultural patrimony; Siena and its immutability; Pisa and its hanging tower; Arezzo and its professions; Lucca with its walls; Pistoia with its folklore; Massa Carrara and its marbles. The shoreline: the Versilia, the Coast of the Etruschi, the Maremma and the Island of Elba with its National Park of the Tuscany Archipelago. The mountain: the Apuane Alps with its Regional Park, the Lunigiana, the Garfagnana, the pistoiese Appennino with the Abetone, the Casentino and its National Park, the Mugello, Monte Amiata. The thermal centers: Montecatini (PT), Monsummano (PT), Saint Giuliano (PI), Chianciano (SI), Casciana (PI), Bagni di Lucca (LU), Saturnia (GR).

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-Cape of the Argentario
-The Racing silk of Siena
-The regional Park of Maremma
-The road of wines (you’ll finde it inside of the tourist resources)
-Sport Tourism: golf (the 28 golf camps of which 9 to 18 holes)

TOURIST RESOURCES

THE TUSCANY SHORELINE
TO SEE: The apuana and lunigiana coast; the Versilia, 20 km of the most fine beach with its Camaiore pearls, Fort of Marbles, Pietrasanta and Viareggio; Pisa and its hanging tower; the coast of the Etruscan from Livorno to Piombino between the ancient history and the modern pretension to the tourist activity; the Maremma and the butteri; the archaeological Parks of Baratti and Populonia, Saint Silvestro and Cecina; the medieval villages: Castagneto Carducci, Bolgheri, Suvereto, Campiglia Marittima, Marine Rosignano, Populonia and Piombino; Island of the Giglio; Gulf of Follonica with its beaches: Cove Martina and Cala Violina; Castiglione of the Pescaia; Marina of Grosseto; The ancient inhabitant of Pietrasanta
Holiday in Tuscany: Island of Elba, Versilia, Chianti and cultural landscapes.

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-The Argentario, Orbetello and Capalbio
-The beaches of the Etruscan Coast: Saint Vincenzo, Baratti, Marina of Castagneto, Bibbona and Cecina.
-The area of the Tufo in the heart of the Tuscia at the border between Tuscany and Lazio.
-The carnival of Viareggio

Locality
Calcinaia (PI)
Capalbio (GR)
Casciana Terme (PI)
Castiglioncello (LI)
Cecina Mare (LI)
Follonica (GR)
Forte dei Marmi (LU)
Lido di Camaiore (LU)
LIVORNO (LI)
S. Michele in Escheto (LU)
Manciano (GR)
Marin of Bibbona (LI)
Marin of Grosseto (GR)
Marina of Pietrasanta (LU)
Marine Massa (GR)
Massa Pisana (LU)
Montemerano (GR)
Principina to Sea (GR)
Rosignano Solvay (LI)
Saint Giuliano Therme (PI)
Saint Vincenzo (LI)
Saint Maria of Judge (LU)
Saturnia (GR)
Tirrenia (PI)
Viareggio (LU)
Volterra (PI)

ISLAND Of ELBA
TO SEE: beyond 150 beaches of various types; Portoferraio and its museums; the Tonnare in the zone of Marciana; Campo nell Elba and its towers; Forte Focardo to Capoliveri.

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-The National Park of the Tuscany Archipelago with its incredible flora (more than 1200 types of plants, makes of Elba true and real botanical garden)
-Napoleonic Routes
-Romanesque Church of Saint Niccolò to Campo nell Elba

Locality
Campo nell Elba (LI)
Capoliveri (LI)
Marciana (LI)
Pomonte (LI)
Blue port (LI)
Portoferraio (LI)
Procchio Marciana (LI)
Seccheto (LI)

FLORENCE and its SURROUNDINGS
TO SEE: Florence and its inestimable patrimony; the Uffizi galleries; the Medicee di Castello and the Petraia Villas; the Park of Villa Demidoff to Pratolino; Fiesole; Cenacolo di San Salvi and the Last Supper of Andrea de Sarto; Settignano; Certosa of the Galluzzo to Florence; Montecatini Thermal baths, the perfect place for holidays; Routes on Leonardo da Vinci.

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-Buonarroti House to Florence.
-Stibbert Museum to Florence.
-The Marsh of Fucecchio, considered the more important of Italy.
-Boccaccio House to Certaldo
-The Sanctuary of the Madonna of Thanks of the Pebble on the Faentina way.

Locality
Cerreto Guidis (FI)
FLORENCE (FI)
Impruneta (FI)
Montecatini Terme (PT)
Saint Mommè (PT)
Scandicci (FI)
Vinci (FI)

SIENA and its SURROUNDINGS
TO SEE: Siena and its Public Square of the Field. The Chianti. The Valey of Elsa and the towers of Monteriggioni. The Vally of Merse and the medieval village of Murlo. Crete Senesi and the Travertino. The Valley of Orcia, the area of the Brunello wine. The Valley of Chiana with its well-being centers: Chianciano Terme, Montepulciano, Saint Casciano of the Baths.

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-The Racing silk of Siena.
-The painting of Duccio from Boninsegna from the 1300th.
-The Cassero and the medicea fortress to Poggibonsi.
-the Museum of the Forest of Orgia in the Merse Valley
-The Abbey of Saint Galgano.

Locality
Asciano (SI)
Bettolle (SI)
Castelnuovo Berardenga (SI)
Chianciano Terme (SI)
Chiusi(SI)
Montepulciano (SI)
Poggibonsi (SI)
Saint Casciano of the Baths (SI)
Saint Gimignano (SI)
Sere of Rapolano (SI)
SIENA (SI)

AREZZO and its SURROUNDINGS
TO SEE: The Valdarno and its river; the Valdichiana and its bovine pastures; the Valtiberina and the river that leads to Rome; the medieval castle of Conte Guidi to Poppi built in 1200; the roman amphitheater to Arezzo; the Sanctuary of Saint Maria of Thanks to Stia; Bibbiena; Focognano Castel and the neighbour Romanesque Pieve of Sant'Antonino to Socana

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-the National Park of the Casentinesi Forests to Pratovecchio (AR).
-the roman roads and bridges from Arezzo until Pian di Scò.
-the Angelic Blessed soul to Cortona
-The arms and contraband Museum

Locality
AREZZO (AR)
Cortona (AR)
Saint Zeno (AR)


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