As we left the beautiful city of Montecatini and headed toward San Gimignano where no one knew anything about it. We all eventually found out that we were in for a treat. We entered this medieval town in the region of Tuscany which had tall towers, unique buildings, and an amazing culture. The Game of Thrones feel was in full effect (for anyone who watches it). As we explored the city we came upon an extremely tall tower called the big tower. We climbed hundreds of steps finally reaching the top of the tower to see an amazing view. We took pictures and all got very nauseous looking over the edge. While we were taking pictures for our memories (and parents), our rising sophomore Evan Czulada said a quote describing how beautiful the view was: “I feel like you have to smile with this view.” Evan was spot on staring out into the distance of this gorgeous region.
After our hour in San Gimignano was up we were on our way to Siena. The third of four cities we were in for that day also had a medieval feel to it. We saw another amazing detailed church and most of us went up another tall tower that looked over the whole city of Siena which also had an incredible view. As we explored another city on our own we all discovered the best pizza and gelato places to fill our stomachs with. Our tour guide Leo (who is the man) poorly influenced many of us to his collage of taking pictures of tourists taking pictures of their friends in very weird positions in which gave Leo great satisfaction and many laughs throughout our team. When our hour and a half was up in Siena we were in trek for the city of Rome.
The amazing scenery on the two hour bus ride had us all in awe as a rainbow actually showed up in the distance of a beautiful mountain region. Our long great day ended with checking into our hotel in Rome where we will stay the next three days, and everyone is extremely excited for what is in store for these final days on a once in a lifetime trip.
-Nick Antolini, Class of 2020
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