Talk:Tuscany

San Galgano

I rolled back the link to The Abbey of San Galgano. See Talk:The Abbey of San Galgano. --(WT-en) Evan 11:34, 5 January 2007 (EST)

Deleted Sleep listings

This guy has deleted a number of sleep listings without comment. Have they been moved to the right place? (WT-en) Jpatokal 07:29, 24 July 2007 (EDT)

He/she seems to have deleted them a couple of times before as well. Two of the listings are suspect but the first two seem ok. I'll restore them for now.--(WT-en) Wandering 09:03, 24 July 2007 (EDT)

The following was moved off the article page. Listings should be in the towns, if towns don't exist, start them. (WT-en) OldPine 20:06, 14 August 2007 (EDT)

• Villa Il Doccio Cicogna, Tuscany, Italy. A beautiful restored farmhouse with 4 units to rent. Accommodates up to 15 people very comfortably. Includes access to pool and hot tub. There is a large veranda for outdoor dining that overlooks the vineyard. Close to all the major attractions in central Tuscany.

• Casa di Vignolo Pergine Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy. The oldest part of the building was built in the 1400's. Fully restored while maintaining the 'old world' charm you'd expect from such an old building. Located in the small town of Pergine Valdarno where there is a good restaurant, bakery, pharmacy, butcher, grocery store and bank.

• Villa Il Cassero Luxury Residence with pool in Lucignano small medieval village south siena

• listing deleted from page as the URL is now blacklisted - see previous revision for details

• Casa Burraia Charming country house near Montepulciano, swimmingpool and Gym. Parking by the house.

• Agriturismo Several country holidays and agriturismo solutions to sleep across all Tuscany.

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Cities

Time to prune the list of cities? My top nine candidates are:

• Florence (Firenze) - capital
• Arezzo
• Chiusi
• Lucca
• Montepulciano
• Pienza
• Pisa
• San Gimignano
• Siena

Comments? Changes? --(WT-en) Wandering 13:48, 8 January 2008 (EST)

I agree more or less. I haven't been to Chiusi, Montepulciano, Pienza or San Gimignano, but I know at least San Gimignano deserves to be in there. I would perhaps still add Viareggio to the list. (WT-en) Timo Laine 06:31, 18 June 2008 (EDT)

Posted 27th of June 2009 I find Piombino quite interesting all year around, this town has really got it all.

The pages listed in the Provinces section are the same pages as those for the cities. I think new pages for each province should be created, such as Arezzo (Province). The cites and other destinations would then need to be added to the correct province page. It will then be possible to prune the list of cities.(WT-en) Chris1515 10:00, 4 August 2009 (EDT)

Indeed, the cities list is too long—time to subdivide into regions. After creating the province articles, it would be good to prune the list to nine cities, and the above recommended list seems fine to me. --(WT-en) Peter ^Talk 14:18, 4 August 2009 (EDT)

I have now created the province pages and copied all the cities to these province pages. I have pruned the cites list to the 9 suggested above. A number of sub-regions for Tuscany have been created in the past. Those that are entirely within one province have been moved to that province. These still need some rationalisation which I will try to do.(WT-en) Chris1515 11:59, 20 August 2009 (EDT)

outline for Tuscany

I think this article has enough content.(WT-en) Pz-engl 11:47, 6 June 2008 (EDT)

Removed listings

These need to go in their relevant city article:

• <do name="" alt="" address="" directions="" phone="" url="http://www.sangalgano.org" hours="" price="" lat="" long="">The impressive Abbey of San Galgano and its best sight: the sword in the stone </do>

• <do name="Organic Tuscany Cooking Classes" alt="Italian Cooking School" address="Loc. Pino, Certaldo 50052" directions="" phone="+ 1 347 417 5907" url="http://www.organictuscany.org" hours="" price="" lat="" long="">Organic Tuscany offers week-long cooking classes in the Tuscan countryside with accommodation in a magnificent 19th century villa. The program includes visits to local organic farms where the fresh, local food they use is grown, hands-on cooking lessons with traditional Tuscan and Italian recipes, wine and oil tastings and tours of Florence and Siena.</do>

• Authentic Tuscan cooking class [1] in a wonderful Chianti villa, tailor-made course up to 6 people. You would enjoy a fantastic cooking course. You will learn everything you will need to know to prepare an authentic Tuscan meal with a hint of international twist from the antipasto course to the dessert. Carry back with you the ability to recreate an enviable Italian dinner at home, from homemade pasta, lasagne, panzanella and ribollita to tiramisu and schiacciata con l'uva.

To who took off the listing. Please reconsider it. Travellers when looking for something to do they look under the region and not the city. This is customary and I believe that no one will find a specific thing to do or eat if they would have to look under each of the 200 and more town or village. So if I go to Provence and want to do a cooking class, I will never look under each oof its town, it will take a day, so I will abandon Wikivoyage for something else. I am sure that other places are under a different rule. Also this rule helps large cities and penalises regions with small villages like tuscany. A large city like New York or Paris, if I am looking for what to do, I will get the result of the activity of 10 million people alltogether, while here, with your idea of distributing things to do into 200 pages, it would be certainly not user friendly. Going by population number, it's like asking New York to have a "thing to do" page for each street. That would be cumbersome. Yes we added the listing for evident commercial reason, that is evident. But I believe that is the spirit of wikytravel " a travel guide to Tuscany" says the title. Your cleaning up now have created a page that is just like Tuscany under Wikipedia, so you are ruining the spirit of a travel guide. The result would be many bounceback.

The anonymous user is entirely correct, listings should go in the city articles - this is a long established policy of wikivoyage. See Project:Where you can stick it for more information. --(WT-en) Stefan (sertmann) ^talk 17:07, 21 February 2010 (EST)

Tuscany's beaches?

You hear a lot about holidays in Tuscany’s countryside, but what about Tuscany’s fine beaches? Marina di Carrara, Marina di Massa, Lucca, Lido di Camaiore, Cinquale, Forte dei Marmi, Marina di Pietrasanta, Viareggio… —The preceding comment was added by (WT-en) 77.44.46.185 (talk • contribs)

Parks

If someone who knows Tuscany well can make some sense of this jumble, please go ahead! Deleted from the main article.

National Parks of the Tuscan Archipelago

• The National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago: wild nature makes for authentic paradise in the Official Site of tourism in Tuscany and The Official Site of National Park of the Tuscan Archipelago

The National Park of the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona and Campigna

• The National Park of the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona and Campigna in the Official Site of tourism in Tuscany and The Official Site of the National Park of the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona and Campigna

The National Park of the Tusco-Emilian Apennines

• The National Park of the Tusco-Emilian Apennines: a paradise for enthusiasts of open spaces and uncontaminated nature in the Official Site of tourism in Tuscany and The Official Site of the National Park of the Tusco-Emilian Apennines

The Maremma Regional Park

• The Maremma Regional Park: a nature reserve that stretches from the Uccellina hills, across marshlands and to the crystal blue sea waters beyond in the Official Site of tourism in Tuscany and The Official Site of The Maremma Regional Park

The Park of the Apuan Alps

• The Park of the Apuan Alps: a network of footpaths to discover a territory rich in natural beauty and breathtaking scenery in the Official Site of tourism in Tuscany and The Official Site of The Park of the Apuan Alps

The Park of Migliarino, San Rossore and Massaciuccoli

• The Park of Migliarino, San Rossore and Massaciuccoli: in this corner of Tuscany, nature truly reigns supreme in the Official Site of tourism in Tuscany and The Official Site of The Park of Migliarino, San Rossore and Massaciuccoli

The Montioni nature park

• Montioni nature park: the “green lung” of the Etruscan Coast in the Official Site of tourism in Tuscany and The Official Site of the Montioni nature park

Luxury and ancient Villa in Tuscany

This is a reply to this Talk:Tuscany for your editor consideration about Tuscany Sleep Splurge section. Windows on Tuscany isn't a booking or a real estate agency that aggregate accomodation but a project by Leonardo Ferragamo (from the same fashion family) that promote the Tuscan lifestyle and medieval village with more than 150 luxury villas in Tuscany that are all our property. Our headquarter is in Florence and there is a team of expert that satisfy all the travellers requirements.

Look at the description that it's possibile to add in the section:

Windows on Tuscany - Tuscany Villas, Via dei Serragli 6/R, Florence. ☎ +39 055 268510. More than 150 luxury properties in Tuscany, renaissance-style, Villas with outdoor pools and outstanding views over the Chianti vineyards, Florence, Lucca, Siena, Arezzo, Grosseto. From 1320 to 5200/week with many bedrooms, garden, gazebo, jacuzzi, wifi, air conditioning, etc.

Listings moved from "See"

Regional-level articles shouldn't have specific listings, but instead a prose summary. I tried my hand at one, but I don't know what to say about parks, so someone who knows the regional parks well and would like to write a summary about them would be doing a good service. Meanwhile, here are some listings that were moved from "See," in case anyone would like to refer to them:

• Cathedrals. Every Tuscan city has a cathedral (duomo), each one prettier than the other. 

• David. Michelangelo's masterpiece is in the Galleria dell'Accademia delle Bella Arti in Florence [2]. Copies in the same city on Piazza della Signoria and Piazzale Michelangelo. 

• Leaning tower. The instantly recognizable landmark is in Pisa on the square of miracles, Piazza dei miracoli. 

• Uffizi Gallery. The best collection of Renaissance art in the world is in Florence. 

• Museo Galileo (formally named Institute and Museum of History of Science), Florence, Piazza dei Giudici,1. Located in Florence the museum contains 5000 items from the Medici collection of apparatus and scientific instruments and the Lorenese collection of instruments and didactic and experimental devices. 

• Leonardo Da Vinci Museum, Castello dei Conti Guidi, 50053 VINCI - FI - Italy (the Museum is open every day from 9:30AM to 6PM.), ☏ +39-0571-56055, leonardiana@leonet.it. Located in the medieval Castello Guidi (11-12 cen.), the Leonardo's Museum dominates the small city of Vinci. View Da Vinci's works, browse through the library, and more [3]. 

Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:55, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Alternative banner for this article?

Banner currently used in this article

Suggested new alternative banner

I created a new alternative banner for this article (I initially created it first and foremost so that it would be used at the top of the parallel article in the Hebrew edition of Wikivoyage, yet I later decided to also suggest that the English Wikivoyage community would consider using it here as well). So, which banner do you prefer having at the top of this article? ויקיג'אנקי (talk) 05:46, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

The cypresses are really emblematic of Tuscan countryside, whereas the new banner is of a particular place. Given that, although I was unsure at first, I think I would support retaining the current banner. I also like the current banner's composition more. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Meeting in Tuscany

Swept in from the pub

Hello. We're organizing a trip to w:Cascina with some wikimedians of Tuscany. See it:Wikipedia:Raduni/WikiGita all'abbazia di San Savino, We will visit a place that is usually closed. It is nothing fancy but we will also show some new tools for image harvesting (wiki needs pictures, we are going soon to update more than 180k entries of building missing an image on wikidata). We have already a Swiss and a de-N user joining us, so it is quite international if you want to join! Also as a member of https://it.eurobilltracker.com/ I will also introduce to money tracking app, so a lot of synergy. Sorry for the spam: We can inform the local users but we have no idea who's a tourist in the area. :D --Alexmar983 (talk) 17:59, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Have fun there! wiki needs pictures is a very promising tool indeed, I also started contributing to that project two days ago. On Android, it makes a good combination with the Commons app :-) Syced (talk) 13:27, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Syced but the new version of wikishootme is also updated. They all have pros and cons. But feel free to try them all.--Alexmar983 (talk) 01:25, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

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