Secrets of San Gimignano Cycling
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Highlights This 8-night cycling holiday combines fabulously unspoilt Chianti countryside with the chance to visit the world-famous cities of Florence and Siena. You'll stay in high quality hotels, enjoy superb meals and relax by panormic pools - views extend as far as Corsica on a clear day! 
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Holiday introduction
- Exhilarating cycling through fabulously open and totally unspoilt countryside: breathtaking balcony views!
- Cypress-studded rolling hills, sun-drenched olives, famous Chianti vineyards with lots of tasting opportunities
- Fabulous *** and **** hotels - all with panoramic pools - superb cuisine, world-class wines
- San Gimignano's soaring towers, Volterra's Etruscan treasures; great art cities of Florence, Pisa and Siena
- Choose from 8 or 10 night holiday
This 8-night cycling holiday is, quite simply, outstanding in every way: the rich scenery, the fantastic hotels, the local cuisine, the exceptional wines... the list goes on!
You'll start off in Volterra, a beautifully preserved hilltop gem whose eclectic mix of Etruscan, Roman and Renaissance art and architecture has inspired artists and writers for centuries. From here, you pedal east through a timeless and kaleidoscopic landscape of ochre-coloured hills, verdant vineyards and stunning rolling countryside towards San Donato, a sleepy wine hamlet overlooking San Gimignano. The cycling is truly glorious as you continue via mediaeval Colle - optional day trips to Florence and Siena - and coast on towards honey-coloured Pancole, nestled in the Tuscan hills. It's then on along quiet, undulating country lanes giving you a real sense of achievement as you loop back to Volterra for your final night.
Superb *** and **** hotels - all with sparkling swimming pools - are an added highlight throughout this holiday. In Colle di Val d'Elsa, you stay in a fabulously restored C14 Benedictine abbey, complete with original frescoes, while Alessandro's friendly hotel in Pancole is renowned for its regional cuisine - see if you can spot the photo of Tony Blair eating here a few summers ago! Of course, you are in the heart of some of Europe's finest wine country too, so you'll never be short of tasting opportunities.
We're probably a little biased, so here's what our customers say...
"First time we have been on a holiday moving from hotel to hotel, really enjoyed the freedom of the self guided cycling, fantastic scenery. Brilliant holiday"
Mrs Fitzmaurice, Frodsham
"Thank you for a great holiday - we hadn't booked with Headwater before, or even done a cycling holiday - but we definitely will again!"
Mrs Milner, Cheshire
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