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Historic Centre of San Gimignano

Italy
Date of Inscription: 1990
Criteria: (i)(iii)(iv)
Core zone: 13.88 ha
Province of Siena, Tuscany
N43 28 5.016 E11 2 30.012
Ref: 550

Brief Description

'San Gimignano delle belle Torri' is in Tuscany, 56 km south of Florence. It served as an important relay point for pilgrims travelling to or from Rome on the Via Francigena. The patrician families who controlled the town built around 72 tower-houses (some as high as 50 m) as symbols of their wealth and power. Although only 14 have survived, San Gimignano has retained its feudal atmosphere and appearance. The town also has several masterpieces of 14th- and 15th-century Italian art.

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