San Gimignano

For centuries, in the Tuscany's heart, San Gimignano overlooked on a hill the Elsa's valley.
San Gimignano is famous all over the world for it's irregular tower's profile and the evocative squares.
The historical center is small but it preserves its unchanged characteristic architecture and offers fine foreshortenings. Runnings through the two most important streets, we arrive in "Piazza della Cisterna". It's a round square with ancient buildings and in the middle there is a cistern that, population, in the past used for rain-water.

The adjoining square is "Piazza del Duomo" with the highest tower of "Podesta's Palace" that you can visit together with the Civic Museum and a Picture gallery.