San Gimignano Historic Centre
Also known as Centro storico di San Gimignano
1199
Medieval
landscape
San Gimignano is a hilltop walled town in the Val d'Elsa whose skyline still carries fourteen of the seventy-two tower houses that competing noble and merchant families built between the 11th and 13th centuries to project status and store…
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- 1199
San Gimignano became an independent commune in 1199, opening the period of competing tower-house construction by noble and merchant families.
- 1300
- 1353
Famine and plague reduced the population after 1353 and the town passed under Florentine rule, which froze the medieval urban plan against later renewal.
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