Surroundings – Lajatico, Peccioli & Legoli

16 km from Residence Lunaria

It is a picturesque town located in the heart of Tuscany, known for its charming historic center and beautiful panoramic views. Walking through its cobbled streets, you can discover the Archaeological Museum, which houses Etruscan finds, and the Museum of Russian Icons. The Church of San Verano, with its medieval frescoes, is another point of interest. Peccioli also offers typical restaurants and shops selling local products, such as olive oil and wine.

16 Km from Peccioli

If you are looking for authentic places away from the crowds of tourists, I suggest you go to the town of Lajatico, which is about 15 kilometers from Peccioli. It is a charming town with a mixture of ancient architecture and modern scenographic installations, also known for being home to the famous Teatro del Silenzio, an open-air amphitheater where annual concerts are held by the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli who is originally from that village.

20 km from Residence Lunaria

Hilly city flourishing in the Etruscan period from which phase it preserves sections of city walls with gates, the acropolis with excavations and a magnificent Etruscan museum with many important artefacts as well as a medieval housing system and places first-rate artistic and food and wine.

35 km from Residence Lunaria

UNESCO World Heritage SiteA small fortified medieval city, famous for its architecture, San Gimignano has managed to preserve fourteen towers of different heights which have become its international symbol. Considered the "New York of the Middle Ages" due to its ancient towers that are crowded at its peak with art churches and museums (for strong tastes there is the torture museum) in a context outside of time.

35 km from Residence Lunaria

Etruscan-Medieval city which was the birthplace of the great 12th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio, author of the Decameron. Certaldo is made up of a lower town and, taking the funicular, the upper town with a characteristic medieval layout.

48 km from Residence Lunaria

UNESCO world heritage site.In addition to the indispensable Leaning Tower - one of the seven wonders of modern times - in the Piazza di Miracoli (site of the cathedral) there is the monumental cemetery (Camposanto), the sinopie museum. If you have a little time, along the banks of the Arno river with its buildings, there is the San Matteo museum (collection of 13th century wooden crosses) and the small Church of the Spina entirely in Carrara marble and in original style flamboyant gothic. To visit Pisa, we suggest you park in the paid car park near Piazza dei Miracoli, while the train station is very remote.

80 km from Residence Lunaria

The center of the Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries has more art per square meter than any other place in the world! The most famous art galleries such as the Uffizi must be booked in advance to avoid hours of queuing. Recommended famous works, in addition to the extraordinary Duomo with Brunelleschi's dome, the Baptistery with the Gates of Paradise, Michelangelo's sculptures in the Accademia gallery, Giotto's historical painting in the church of Santa Croce and Ponte Vecchio sull'Arno, the the only urbanized bridge that has survived to this day from the Middle Ages. Because the train station in Florence is in the centre of the city while the car parks are very far away, to visit it, I suggest to go to the nearby town of Pontedera, 30 km from Residence Lunaria and there take the train to Florence.

16 km from Residence Lunaria

Two abandoned villages a short distance from Residence Lunaria in the Tuscan hills, in a crystallized and dreamy agricultural setting with splendid sceneries that are little or not frequented at all.

20 km from Residence Lunaria

Shortly after Castelfalfi there is a masterpiece of art which is not advertised at all where, on a wooded hill with free access, there is the "little Jerusalem of Tuscany" including the 14 newsstands of the Via Crucis represented with sixteenth-century statues and bas-reliefs in polychrome terracotta from Della Robbia's workshop.

20 km from Residence Lunaria

It preserves numerous remains of its illustrious past when it was in fact the capital of the Pisan Hills. The city was awarded the Orange Flag, a mark of tourist-environmental quality awarded by the Italian Touring Club to small towns in the Tuscan hinterland. The famous "Cherry Festival" is held every year in Lari in the last weekend of May and the first weekend of June; "Collinarea" instead, an event of music, theatre, workshops and entertainment usually takes place in the month of July.

45 km from Residence Lunaria

Fortified village with walls and towers with perfect medieval geometry. The place is in its forms, halfway between a castle and a hilltop village and its tower system, also sung in Dante's Inferno, inspired the crown that decorates the head of the female personification of Italy in coins and prints Risorgimento. Small, unique and exciting.

75 km from Residence Lunaria

Medieval abbey where only the immense walls with windows and rosettes looking into the void remain. The sky and clouds are the roof of the church. Appeared in several films for a unique emotion.On the very nearby hill reachable on foot with a 15 minute walk there is the real "Sword in the Stone". In the Middle Ages a knight miraculously placed his sword in a rock on that hill to venerate it in the shape of a cross. That sword has still been there embedded in the stone for 800 years and this story perhaps landed in England adding to the legend of King Arthur.