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Fiesole
The town center, Piazza Mino da Fiesole, with its austere cathedral founded in 1028, is the starting-point for some exhilarating hill walks (the tourist office in the main piazza has walking maps), the most immediate being the steep paved lane leading from the square up to the small San Francesco convent and post-card views of Florence.
After an easy side-trip from Florence to Fiesole, our itineraries go farther afield — west to Pisa and Lucca before turning south through the hills of Chianti to Siena.
Just 8 km (5 miles) northeast of Florence, 30 minutes on the number 7 bus from the Duomo or Piazza San Marco, the road winds up a wooded cypress-studded hillside, revealing at each bend ever-changing views of Fiesole’s gardens and historical villas and the monuments of the great Renaissance city below.
Only some wall fragments remain of the former Etruscan stronghold in Fiesole itself, but there are extensive Roman ruins, including a well-preserved amphitheater dating to 100 b.c. — still in use for summertime festivals — which seats 2,500 spectators.