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.
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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.
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3. Società Cooperativa Artieri Alabastro, Volterra
Since 1895 this has been the principal outlet for alabaster artisans without a shop of their own.
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4. Gallerie Agostiniane, Volterra
Another showcase for alabaster workers who are too busy to maintain their own sales outlets.
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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.
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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.
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7. L’Incontro, Volterra
This pastry and panino wine bar occupies an airy medieval room. Don’t miss the deli counter at the back.
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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.
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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.
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10. Spartaco Montagnani, Volterra
Visit the shop of this local sculptor who creates original bronzes as well as replicas of works in the museum.
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