Pistoia Trip Overview
Pistoia is an alluring city with an untouched local culture. It’s a place that will enchant lovers of food and traditions. In the city center you can wander down a path full of local market, churches, palaces, museums and monuments that orbit one of the most fascinating Piazzas in Italy. This tour is a unique opportunity to discover the symbolic monument of the city of Pistoia paired with food tasting and artisans workshop in an unique and surprising way.
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Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Pistoia, Italy
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Wine Tasting & Winery Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Pistoia, Toscana, Italy
Pistoia is an alluring city with an untouched local culture. It’s a place that will enchant lovers of food and traditions. In the city center you can wander down a path full of local market, churches, palaces, museums and monuments that orbit one of the most fascinating Piazzas in Italy. This tour is a unique opportunity to discover the symbolic monument of the city of Pistoia paired with food tasting and artisans workshop in an unique and surprising way.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Piazza San Francesco a Pistoia, Piazza San Francesco, Pistoia Italy
Piazza San Francesco (known by many as Piazza Mazzini) was the protagonist of many events related to the history of the city; in ancient times it was a grassy lawn and took on its current appearance only towards the early nineteenth century when the Pantheon was built, placed on the relief that is to the west of the square. Thanks to the local literature you can find evidence of the past: in 1324 the militias of Castruccio Antelminelli, known as Castracani, encamped there, when his troops won against the historical traitor of Pistoia Filippo Tedici.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Via degli Orafi, 51100 Pistoia PT, Italy
One of the oldest streets is Via degli Orafi, a street that was originally called Via Taberna, probably due to the many taverns that were there.
Along this street in the historic center stand out some of the most important Art Nouveau buildings in the city and built thanks to the entrepreneurial initiative of Antonio Lavarini.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Piazza della Sala, 51100, Pistoia Italy
Gathered intimately in the space where, in the Lombard period, the curtis domini regis (the Gastaldo palace) stood, Piazza della Sala, squeezed around the Pozzo del Leoncino, today hosts a weekly market.
Inside the area, characterized by small shops, stone benches and canopies, the daily food market is held.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Piazza del Duomo, Pistoia Italy
From whichever side you look at it, you understand at first glance why Piazza del Duomo is considered one of the most beautiful square in Italy. Serene in the atmosphere, it is surrounded by architecture of orderly and monumental elegance, buildings that play with the impetus of the bell tower, very light in height, for the flourishing of loggias and loggias.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Campanile del Duomo di Pistoia, Piazza del Duomo, 51100, Pistoia Italy
The Pistoia’s belltower, an authentic medieval tower of the 13th-14th century, opens its panoramic floor of the “Logge” to a unique event of its kind: a tasting of excellent local wine to be sipped slowly suspended 35 meters high!
Duration: 30 minutes
