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Top 10 Best Things To Do in Empoli, Italy
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List of Best Things to do in Empoli , Italy
Parco di Serravalle
La Galleria
Museo della Collegiata di Sant'Andrea
Chiesa della Collegiata di Sant'Andrea
Piazza Farinata degli Uberti
MUVE, Museo del Vetro di Empoli
Chiesa di Santo Stefano
Torrione di Santa Brigida di Empoli
Museo Civico di Paleontologia di Empoli
Casa del Pontormo
A day in Pontassieve (FI) Tuscany Italy
A nice little town in the province of Florence Italy.
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Springtime bike ride from Florence to Pontassieve Tuscany Italy
Enjoy the springtime view along the banks of the Arno and the Sieve Rivers. The colorful view of the hills along the way.
Tuscany, Italy One Day Trip Travel Guide
Watch me hunt for white truffles in the Tuscan countryside, taste famous organic wine and check out killer views!
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Tuscan Truffle Hunting Tour in San Miniato details:
- The pickup time was at 10 am in front of the National Library which was an easy 15 min walk from our AirBNB.
- I booked the excursion online. The excursion costs 350 euros for two people.
- Came with a 3 course lunch with truffles and wine tasting
- If you have a car and just want to join the truffle hunting, you can do that. There was a couple in our tour that drove here themselves. They said they found them online and booked it on their own. - I also read that leaving from the San Miniato train station takes about a 15 minute taxi ride that costs €25 each way. It takes about 30 minutes to take the train from Florence.
- DO BORROW their boots because the forest is often muddy.
- October and November has the best climate for truffle hunting. Although I'm here in October, today wasn't the best climate for truffle hunting because it wasn't cold and wet enough.
Truffle Hunting Dog Details!
In Italy, the use of pigs has been prohibited since 1985. The pigs dig into the ground looking for truffles and harms the entire truffle ecosystem in the process. With dogs, they can smell the truffle and alert their owners. The owner then carefully digs up the truffle and then closes the hole back up for future truffles to grow back. Dogs like Choco cost up to $10,000 US!
Next stop: wine tasting!
This winery started in 1535. They not only produce wines - they also produce olives. They breed Cinta Senese to produce salami and prosciutto. Cinta Senese is a breed of Italian pig from the province of Siena, in Tuscany. They also produce honey and produce and everything is organic!
The big barrels can be reused for 15 to 16 years. These barrels are huge! The big barrow gives the wine a freshness and fruitier taste. The small barrels are only used for 3 years. After 3 years the barrel absorbs too much wine to be reused.
The green glass on top of the barrel allows the gas created by fermentation to escape while not allowing air back in. This cool contraption was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci.
After the tour we got to taste their wines along with some salami and prosciutto. They add fennel seeds into the salami. It was very good!
Why does Florence, Italy bread have no salt?
The bread made in this region of Italy has no salt added. I didn't know that as it was my first time trying saltless bread. I'll have to admit I like my bread with some sodium. Bread from Tuscany and Florentine and maybe some other places near by don't add salt to their bread. There are many reasons for this: I don't know which one is true. But here goes: salt used to be heavily taxed so to save some money they stopped adding salt to their bread. Another reason is during war between Pisa and Florence the Pisan army set up a blockade on the Arno River to prevent salt shipments from reaching Florence. Without salt, bakers just continued baking their bread without the salt. Last reason is Tuscan cuisine tend to be on the saltier side so the bread is to help eat the salty food.
Final STOP: Plaza Michelangelo. He was willing to drop us off there instead so we can catch the sunset.
It was nice because this place was on my list to visit and it saved me a hike up the hill to get there.
The view up here is amazing! You can see the entire city of Florence from here. It was a bit cloudy to see the sunset, but it was still very nice.
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The old and beautiful hill town of Montalcino in Tuscany Italy
It is one of the most beautiful hill town. It conserves an old fortress. Here they produce the best wine Brunello di Montalcino
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Pontassieve (FI) Italy Winter View
See the view on a winter day of this little town in the province of Florence Italy.
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A day in Empoli Tuscany Italy
A nice town in the province of Florence Italy. Thoug it was raining heavily. I was able to take these photos!
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The Tuscan ideal Village of Palazzuolo sul Senio / Italy
The Airone Prize winner as the best Ideal village in the world.
Nice to be there for summer vacation.
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