Instead of Chianti
Instead of Chianti: hill towns within 75 minutes
Greve is the front door of Chianti, which means it is the first stop of every wine tour running out of Florence.
Chianti is a large place. The towns off the Chiantigiana road pour the same wine and answer the phone themselves.
Hill towns in our catalogue within 75 minutes of Greve in Chianti by road, ranked by outside recognition. Greve in Chianti itself and the other famous places are left out. 8 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Chianti
Greve in Chianti · 13,322 residents · Toscana
- LucignanoArezzo
Hill town · Borgo dei Borghi
- From Greve in Chianti
- 1h 14m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 3,383
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
Hill town · Bandiera Arancione
- From Greve in Chianti
- 50m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 8,924
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- MontaioneFirenze
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Greve in Chianti
- 1h 14m by car
- Residents
- 3,492
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- Barberino di MugelloFirenze
Hill town · UNESCO
- From Greve in Chianti
- 56m by car
- Residents
- 10,920
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
Hill town · Spighe Verdi
- From Greve in Chianti
- 38m by car
- Residents
- 2,651
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
The 5 best-recognised of the 8 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Greve in Chianti. More of them follow below.
Lucignano
Province: Arezzo · 400 m
A walled elliptical hill town at 400 meters between Siena and Arezzo, planned in medieval concentric rings around the goldsmith's reliquary called the Tree of Life.
- ✷ We've been
Castelnuovo Berardenga
Province: Siena · 351 m
A commune of 351 meters, the last castle Siena built against Florence, in 1366.
Montaione
Province: Firenze · 341 m
A medieval glassmaking and truffle borgo at 341 meters above the Valdelsa, with a Franciscan replica of Jerusalem in the woods nearby.
Barberino di Mugello
Province: Firenze · 272 m
The Mugello gateway at 272 meters where the Medici family kept its first country villas, with Michelozzo's Cafaggiolo and the artificial Lago di Bilancino below.
- ✷ We've been
Castellina in Chianti
Province: Siena · 578 m
A Chianti hill town at 578 meters on the watershed between the Arno and the Ombrone, with an Etruscan tumulus, a Brunelleschi-reinforced wall and a covered medieval walkway around its edge.
Rapolano Terme
Province: Siena · 334 m
A Sienese thermal town of 38-degree calcium-sulphur waters and travertine quarries feeding facades beyond its borders.
Fiesole
Province: Firenze · 295 m
An Etruscan hilltop above Florence, still looking down on what later replaced it.
- ✷ We've been
Arezzo
Province: Arezzo · 296 m
Tuscany's other set-piece: a 96,000-resident Etruscan-Roman-medieval hilltop city 80 km southeast of Florence.
Drive times measured by road from Greve in Chianti. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.