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Top 10 Shops and Cafés

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1. Bar I Combattenti, San Gimignano

Get great home-made gelato and decent coffee on San Gimignano’s main street.
2. Souvenir Shops, San Gimignano

Tacky souvenir shops line the Via S. Giovanni, selling medieval-style crossbows, swords and flails of varying degrees of realism. Most of them are small and very blunt, but some are fully functional.
3. Società Cooperativa Artieri Alabastro, Volterra

Since 1895 this has been the principal outlet for alabaster artisans without a shop of their own.
4. Gallerie Agostiniane, Volterra

Another showcase for alabaster workers who are too busy to maintain their own sales outlets.
5. Enoteca Le Logge, Massa Marittima

This is a great, simple Old World café-bar with tables set under the partly frescoed portico of the main piazza; their sandwiches and gelato are definitely worth a try.
6. Enoteca la Botte e il Frantoio, San Gimignano

This retail outlet for Luciano Bruni’s Vernaccia wine also sells olive oils and other top wines from across Tuscany.
7. L’Incontro, Volterra

This pastry and panino wine bar occupies an airy medieval room. Don’t miss the deli counter at the back.
8. Belli, Colle di Val d’Elsa

The Etruscans crafted crystal in this area. Belli is the best of those workshops carrying on the tradition, producing both refined objects and souvenirs.
9. II Cantuccio di Federigo, San Miniato

The Gazzarrinis have been making superb pastries, cakes and biscuits for five generations. To go with the cantucci they carry over 40 vin santo labels.
10. Spartaco Montagnani, Volterra

Visit the shop of this local sculptor who creates original bronzes as well as replicas of works in the museum.