{"id":942,"date":"2019-05-24T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=942"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:02:32","slug":"gambassi-terme-to-san-gimignano-20k-a-walk-through-chiantishire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Gambassi Terme to San Gimignano 20k A walk through Chiantishire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='float:left;margin-right:20px;width:300px'><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172138695.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172138695.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172144669.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172144669.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172150320.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172150320.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172154267.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172154267.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172202091.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" title=\"Click here for a larger image\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MobileBlog20190524172202091.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Most of the day is spent ambling up and down through the Tuscan Hills with gently rolling green fields and woods to delight the eye.<br \/>There are many estates with vines and olive trees neatly kept, which are set up for tastings and direct sales or agrotourisms offering places to stay.<br \/>The buildings are mellow brick colour and often feature a tower.<br \/>We manage a coffee in comfortable chairs on the terrace of one such establishment, it would seem to be a pleasant way to spend a few days drifting from place to place in lotus land.<br \/>We hear rather than see hoopoes but instead see bee eaters sitting on the wires and catch an occasional glimpse of their coloured plumage, while swallows are busy catching food for their nestlings.<br \/>The garish religious tat of Santuario di Panacole, commemorating an apparition of the Madonna to a mute shepherdess who miraculously gained the power of speech, is over run with mountain bikers when we pass by.<br \/>Eventually the towers of San Gimignano came into sight. There are 15 remaining of the original 70, tall square and unadorned they vie with each other to impress. Despite the tourist crowds the town is a charming maze of old houses.<br \/>We have a gelato from a shop that claims it is the best in the world, well it\u2019s pretty good anyway.<br \/>The hostel is full so we walk onto a campsite where we get a cabin for the night at half price on account of being pilgrims. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/?ie=UTF8&amp;q=43.77607,10.68995&amp;ll=43.77607,10.68995&amp;t=k&amp;z=16\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to where we are on Google Maps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the day is spent ambling up and down through the Tuscan Hills with gently rolling green fields and woods to delight the eye.There are many estates with vines and olive trees neatly kept, which are set up for tastings and direct sales or agrotourisms offering places to stay.The buildings are mellow brick colour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/?p=942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gambassi Terme to San Gimignano 20k A walk through Chiantishire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonydyson.co.uk\/wordpressBlogs\/blog_camino_2018\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}