Toscana e Umbria

[Strambi]

Ciao! Undici anni fa, Discover Tuscany mi ha aiutato a fare i piani dela luna di miele in Toscana e Cinqueterre.
Adesso penso a tornare in Toscana, però questa volta andrei anche ad Umbria. Pensiamo ad aprile, maggio. Forse senza Firenze questa volta: più tempo a Lucca, Siena e altri posti.
Qualcuno avrebbe un suggerimento di un piano di 10 a 15 giorni?

Grazie!

 

[Lourdes]

Ciao Strambi and welcome back! Wow, 11 years ago, are you coming back for your anniversary?

If you have 10-15 days between April and May, I'd suggest May. Less chance of showers, getting nicer temperatures in general. April is still a very good choice, but later just makes it more likely to be warmer. Although you can't count on anything, since this past June was very rainy!!

So no Florence.... then how about setting up a base for 7 days in one place, then moving on to another for the remaining time?

I suppose you will rent a car to make it easier to move around? In that case, you can stay in the area to the southwest of Florence that is still considered Chianti and use that as a base to go west to Pisa, Lucca, San Gimignano, San Miniato, Certaldo and east to hilltops towns in Chianti such as San Donato, Castellina, Radda, Panzano and Greve/Montefioralle.

Then move on to your second base in southern Tuscany and from there visit that area: Siena, the Valdorcia towns of Pienza, Montepulciano, San Quirico, Montalcino, Buonconvento, if you want to visit thermal hot springs you can go to Bagno Vignoni and San Filippo. You can also head east to Arezzo and Cortona, or even west to the coast to the Maremma area... AS WELL as UMBRIA.

You can visit Peruggia, Assisi and Lago Trasimeno from Tuscany as your base. Depending how much you want to see in Umbria, you could take off stuff mentioned above and add to Umbria. If that is the case, then you could cut this week shorter and move on south for a few days, rather than do it all from Tuscany.

15 days will not be enough!!

How does that sound for now? Keep posting any questions as you move forth and need any assistance!

And thank you for thinking of us and coming back to plan your trip back to Tuscany!

 

[Strambi]

Ciao Strambi and welcome back! Wow, 11 years ago, are you coming back for your anniversary?

If you have 10-15 days between April and May, I'd suggest May. Less chance of showers, getting nicer temperatures in general. April is still a very good choice, but later just makes it more likely to be warmer. Although you can't count on anything, since this past June was very rainy!!

So no Florence.... then how about setting up a base for 7 days in one place, then moving on to another for the remaining time?

I suppose you will rent a car to make it easier to move around? In that case, you can stay in the area to the southwest of Florence that is still considered Chianti and use that as a base to go west to Pisa, Lucca, San Gimignano, San Miniato, Certaldo and east to hilltops towns in Chianti such as San Donato, Castellina, Radda, Panzano and Greve/Montefioralle.

Then move on to your second base in southern Tuscany and from there visit that area: Siena, the Valdorcia towns of Pienza, Montepulciano, San Quirico, Montalcino, Buonconvento, if you want to visit thermal hot springs you can go to Bagno Vignoni and San Filippo. You can also head east to Arezzo and Cortona, or even west to the coast to the Maremma area... AS WELL as UMBRIA.

You can visit Peruggia, Assisi and Lago Trasimeno from Tuscany as your base. Depending how much you want to see in Umbria, you could take off stuff mentioned above and add to Umbria. If that is the case, then you could cut this week shorter and move on south for a few days, rather than do it all from Tuscany.

15 days will not be enough!!

How does that sound for now? Keep posting any questions as you move forth and need any assistance!

And thank you for thinking of us and coming back to plan your trip back to Tuscany!

Dear Lourdes, than you again for being always so kind and helpufl.
Change of plans: no more Umbria. Now it will be Napoli, 1 night in Roma, then Pisa and surroundings, finally Milano. Would you prefer that I open a new topic?
I'm not sure about the sequence yet. If you know about any special event in one of these places between May 3 and 16, I appreciate the information.
Back to Toscana: why Pisa? Because from there we can visit our Italian teacher in Calci and also our acestors hometown San Lorezo a Vaccoli. We could take the opportunity to visit places like Livorno, Volterra or even the less famous parts of Pisa itself.
Would you suggest anything on Livorno, Volterra and Pisa?

 

[Lourdes]

I love Volterra and appreciate Pisa - what did you end up including in your itinerary?
Would love to hear how everything went when you have the time!

 

[Strambi]

I love Volterra and appreciate Pisa - what did you end up including in your itinerary? Would love to hear how everything went when you have the time!

I love Volterra and appreciate Pisa - what did you end up including in your itinerary? Would love to hear how everything went when you have the time!

I love Volterra and appreciate Pisa - what did you end up including in your itinerary?
Would love to hear how everything went when you have the time!

Hello!
At the end, because we wanted to meet some of our Italian teachers, it was a very nice trip to Napoli, Roma, Milano and Pisa.
In fact, we stayed at Calci, from were we could visit Pisa, Lucca an Volterra.
Volterra is a beautiful medieval town on the top of a hill, with nice landscape views from everywhere. And even such a small town has now a temporary exposition about the art of Banksy. It was also lovely to talk with local people, as the owner of a small bookstore who told us stories about the town.
In Calci, we could taste lots of pecorino cheese and, in the last day, in a hidden restaurant, we discovered how good can be the Pappardelle al Ragù di Cinghiale.
As we are specially interested in History and Sciences, it was nice to visit the Certosa and its museum.