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Alternatives to San Gimignano: every hill town in Tuscany, in one list

43 towns · 1 region · the complete list

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Manciano

Manciano, Tuscany

San Gimignano has the towers and it has the coaches. Tuscany has around eighty other walled hill towns that had towers too, most of them knocked down in the same medieval feuds, and a good number still have a gate you drive through and a square where the bar is the only thing open at three.

This is every Tuscan hill town in the catalogue, 43 of them, with San Gimignano itself removed. Ordered by outside recognition, so the ones with a Bandiera Arancione or a Borghi più belli plaque come first. That is a starting order, not a verdict.

Instead of San Gimignano

San Gimignano · 7,480 residents · Toscana

  1. LucignanoArezzo

    Hill town · Borgo dei Borghi

    From San Gimignano
    1 h 24 min by car
    By train
    Reachable
    Residents
    3,442
    When to go
    Apr–Oct
  2. San Casciano dei BagniSiena

    Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia

    From San Gimignano
    2 h 5 min by car
    Residents
    1,421
    When to go
    All year
  3. MancianoGrosseto

    Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia

    From San Gimignano
    2 h 47 min by car
    Residents
    6,916
    When to go
    Apr–Oct
  4. MontalcinoSiena

    Hill town · UNESCO

    From San Gimignano
    1 h 43 min by car
    Residents
    5,569
    When to go
    Apr–Oct
  5. PienzaSiena

    Hill town · UNESCO

    From San Gimignano
    1 h 52 min by car
    Residents
    1,928
    When to go
    Apr–Oct

The 5 best-recognized of the 43 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from San Gimignano. More of them follow below.

43 towns

The rest of the 43

  1. 11.Casale Marittimo1 h 14 min from San Gimignano by car · PISA
  2. 12.Castelnuovo Berardenga1 h 3 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  3. 13.San Quirico d'Orcia1 h 44 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  4. 14.Campiglia Marittima1 h 46 min from San Gimignano by car · LIVORNO
  5. 15.Castiglione d'Orcia1 h 55 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  6. 16.Greve in Chianti1 h 12 min from San Gimignano by car · FIRENZE
  7. 17.Montepulciano1 h 46 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  8. 18.Montaione31 min from San Gimignano by car · FIRENZE
  1. 19.Mulazzo2 h 45 min from San Gimignano by car · MASSA-CARRARA
  2. 20.Poppi1 h 54 min from San Gimignano by car · AREZZO
  3. 21.Monteriggioni34 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  4. 22.Montescudaio1 h 16 min from San Gimignano by car · PISA
  5. 23.Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina1 h 6 min from San Gimignano by car · PISA
  6. 24.Volterra36 min from San Gimignano by car · PISA
  7. 25.Loro Ciuffenna1 h 26 min from San Gimignano by car · AREZZO
  8. 26.Murlo1 h 20 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  9. 27.Trequanda1 h 35 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  10. 28.Fosdinovo2 h 19 min from San Gimignano by car · MASSA-CARRARA
  11. 29.Barberino di Mugello1 h 18 min from San Gimignano by car · FIRENZE
  12. 30.Chiusi1 h 45 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  13. 31.Castiglion Fiorentino1 h 45 min from San Gimignano by car · AREZZO
  14. 32.Castellina in Chianti45 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  15. 33.Cortona1 h 44 min from San Gimignano by car · AREZZO
  16. 34.Stazzema2 h 14 min from San Gimignano by car · LUCCA
  17. 35.Rapolano Terme1 h 8 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  18. 36.Castelnuovo di Garfagnana2 h 21 min from San Gimignano by car · LUCCA
  19. 37.Fivizzano2 h 42 min from San Gimignano by car · MASSA-CARRARA
  20. 38.Chiusdino1 h 23 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  21. 39.Fiesole1 h 17 min from San Gimignano by car · FIRENZE
  22. 40.Licciana Nardi2 h 27 min from San Gimignano by car · MASSA-CARRARA
  23. 41.Siena51 min from San Gimignano by car · SIENA
  24. 42.Pontremoli2 h 32 min from San Gimignano by car · MASSA-CARRARA
  25. 43.Arezzo1 h 41 min from San Gimignano by car · AREZZO

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