Chianti We suggest you to rent a villa in countryside on top of a hill, to fill like the people of olden days when they decide to erect the walls of Monteriggioni and San Gimignano, busy tourist centres nowadays, silhouetted like solitary horsemen against the profile of the moon. Towards the west are waves of manifold panoramas: the vast shady woodlands of the Montagnola are linked to those belonging to the Communes of Monticiano and Chiusdino. The waters of the Merse and Farma rivers give life to habitats of great naturalistic interest. At the far end of the province, the humour-swollen land pierces the sky of Radicondoli with jets of gas: the geothermal area with its raging potential of energy recalls to mind the myth of the forge of the gods, or the benevolent trick of a joking underground alchemist. And there is still more: variety reigns south of Siena too. The gentle valley of the Arbia river, framed by slender rows of poplars, invites one to climb up the hills culminating in the towered summit of Montalcino, fatherland of the much-prized Brunello wine.
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