#tuscany
#San Gimignano - in the 3rd Century BC, the site where the town is built was a small Etruscan villige;
👆originally called City of Silva, it later took its name from the Bishop of Modena / Bishop Geminanus, who liberated the town from a barbarian invasion( the Hun).
👆Today San Gimignano is known as The Town of Fine Towers/ The City of Towers( by the end of the XIV Century there were 72 tower)
#excaveation
#palazzocomunale
#towerhouses
#campaniledellacollegiata
#torridegliardinghelli
#torredeibecci
#torrecampatelli
#torrechigi
#torrerognosa
#torredipalazzopellari
#torredeicugnanesi
#torredeldiavolo
#torregrossa
#torrideisalvucci
#torreficarelli
#casatorrepesciolini
#torrepettini