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Discovering the land of old Roman Thermal Baths in Bagno Vignoni | Day 13 of Via Francigena to Castiglioni d’Orcia
It was the day 13 of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 15 kms from San Quirico d’Orcia to the town Castiglione d’Orcia. We woke up to another sunny morning in the fields of Tuscany close to the village Quirico d’Orcia. The night was quite calm just in the evening the dogs were barking but then fortunately they were quiet. That night we felt like it was hotter than the previous ones and sleeping with stuffy air was not good. In the morning we saw the baby roe deer coming out of the bushes just beside our tent and before it saw us he was behaving so naturally and…
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Town standing on Volcano | Final Day 14 of Via Francigena from Castiglioni d’Orcia to Radicofani
It was the final day 14 of our Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 17 kms from Castiglione d’Orcia to the town Radicofani. That day we had the first rainy morning in the whole hike. At around 5am in the morning we heard the little drops of rain bouncing of our tent and it gradually became stronger. It was a good sign that the day could be a little bit cooler and we can walk easier. After yesterday’s very hot day and no shadow on the trail we were about to quit the hike and call it done. But in such weather conditions we had a chance. The roe…
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Walking through the land of endless vineyards in Tuscany | Day 12 of Via Francigena from Buonconvento to San Quirico d’Orcia
It was the 12th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 13 kms from the town Buonconvento to San Quirico d’Orcia. We spend quite a disturbing night at the field we found yesterday because of the dogs from the neighboring houses that were barking all night. And so we kept awakening from time to time. But nevertheless we really liked that place because of the roe deer that were living there. We saw several of them in the evening and then in the morning as well. There was a baby and a mother that unfortunately were really shy and on alert but we still got them on film…
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Sleeping with the roe deer in the fields of Tuscany | Day 11 of Via Francigena from Siena to Buonconvento
It was the 11th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 17 kms from the city Siena to the town Buonconvento. On the day 11 of our Via Francigena hike we were back on the trail after a 4 day rest in the campsite. We had a really nice time there in a secluded quiet place in the forest and had time to really recover and start fresh again. The location was one of the exceptional ones with no traffic close, very few people because of not a very popular destination and thus no noise which is really important for the good rest. So we already had a…
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Safe trail ends. Dangerous part starts. | Day 10 of Via Francigena from Monteriggioni to Siena
It was the 10th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 17 kms from the town Monteriggioni to the city Siena. The morning started very early for us at 5.30am because we wanted to hike the most of the distance as early as possible. The weather was promising another crazy hot day and we didn’t want to be stroke by a heat wave. At night we didn’t sleep that well and we think we found the reason why it happened the last couple of days. It was because of the hot temperature even during the night it was not less than 20 degrees and no wind at all…
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Walking through the century old oak forest | Day 8 of Via Francigena from San Gimignano to Quartaia
It was the 8th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 17 kms from the town San Gimignano to Quartaia. We met another sunny morning in Tuscany this time at the campsite Boschetto Di Piema. We had a bit disturbing night with the dogs that were barking all night. But overall we liked the location of the campsite and the view from it right on the town San Gimignano. Yesterday we were curious to learn more information about this old medieval town and it turned out that in this town of seven towers how they call it were filmed some movies. In one of them called “Miracles can…
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Discovering the most beautiful medieval town of Italy – San Gimignano | Day 7 of Via Francigena
It was the 7th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 15 kms from Gambassi Terme to the town San Gimignano. We had another quiet night in the Toscanian fields between the vineyards and the only thing that we heard were the sounds of some deers from the closest little forest. But they didn’t really approached us and we haven’t seen them close. We had our delicious oats for breakfast and were good to start the trail. We knew that this is going to be a shorter day because we wanted to stop at the nearest campsite – first that we met in several days and it was…
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Fall in love with authentic landscapes of Tuscany | Day 6 of Via Francigena from Calenzano to Gambassi Terme
It was the 6th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 20 kms from Calenzano to the town Gambassi Terme. We had a very quiet and calm night in the fields of Tuscany, it was our 3rd night wild camping and it was the most quiet. Also because we were at the place several hours before the dusk it helped us to rest better. Feeling refreshed and energized having had our breakfast we were out on the trail. We planned to do 17 kms to the next major village Gambassi Terme that day and we saw on the map that the route was going through the small paths…
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The access is forbidden to the fields of Tuscany, Italy?? | Day 5 of Via Francigena from Fucecchio to Calenzano
It was the 5th day of Via Francigena trail when we hiked around 18 kms from the town Fucecchio to the village Calenzano. That night was really disturbing partly because we had a fear of somebody’s chasing us away partly because there were a lot of noises coming from the nearest car roads, dogs barking everywhere and even some loud music from the discos. Also we heard the shot guns of probably some hunters and it was really scary and strange that they were hunting at night. Not to say that the thought of who they were hunting for was terryfing as well because we were seeing lots of baby…
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Tips, advice and our experience with Via Francigena | Things important to know
In this post we are going to share with you our tips and tricks that we were able to come up with while doing the Via Francigena. Also our main impressions about this trail and some advice that may come in handy before you start. We are going to share what season is the best to hike it, what accommodation to choose, the weather patterns you can meet, whether it is possible to wild camp and all the difficulties and highlights of this trail. Hope that you´ll find some useful information here. And before we start we wanted to remind some of you that may not know what is the…
