Holiday homes & rentals in San Gimignano

Holiday accommodation in San Gimignano, Italy, puts you at the heart of a magical medieval town. From cookery classes using traditional Tuscan methods to sacred art and medieval castles, your adventure starts here.

Learn traditional Tuscan cookery on your San Gimignano holiday

Visit the Tuscan farmhouses close to town to see the origins of farm-to-table cuisine. Casanova di Pescille and Ai Vecchi Tempi offer cooking classes using traditional Tuscan ingredients, recipes, and techniques. Try Tuscan cold cuts of wild boar, sheep cheese with acacia honey, and delicious Sienese pici pasta.

Discover art and culture in San Gimignano

San Gimignano’s Museum of Sacred Art houses incredible religious paintings, along with funerary monuments and wooden sculptures dating back to the fourteenth century. Psalm books by Lippo Vanni and Ser Sozzo accompany treasures such as The Madonna of the Rose, part of a triptych by Bartolo di Fredi.

At the Museum Centre of Santa Chiara, you can visit a clutch of top-notch museums and galleries. The first floor is home to the Archaeological Museum, filled with Etruscan, Roman, and medieval works, along with the Herbarium of Santa Fina and its remarkable collection of 14th-century medicinal phials. Upstairs, a contemporary art gallery wows visitors with creations by the many impressive artists of Tuscany.

Castles and national parks in San Gimignano

Discover la Porta delle Fonti, which opens onto the countryside and several 14th-century fountains. Ten Roman and lancet arches conceal an original Lombard fountain, which dates to the ninth century.

Wander out into the hills to the Castelvecchio Nature Reserve, which stretches for miles into the Tuscan hills. Two rivers wend their way through oak woodlands, wildflower-scented meadows, and rocky outcrops that dominate the landscape.

Make your way to the romantic ruins of Castelvecchio, or Castrum Vetus. Inhabited during the sixth and seventh centuries, the fortified citadel saw its heydey in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries before falling into decline in the fourteenth.

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