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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…
