Montepulciano

Our last stop for the day (before dinner) was Montepulciano. Now I had originally planned on going here tomorrow, but there are severe thunderstorm warnings with heavy rains and strong winds all day tomorrow and Montepulciano was a must visit for me so this morning I said we will see what we see this morning and then this afternoon we will head here. Well we saw all the things I had planned for today this morning so we had plenty of time to explore Montepulciano! Now this was a must see for me as the last part of the second Twilight movie was filmed here! They call it Volterra in the movie, but it is really Montepulciano. We recreated some of the scenes, but I will save that for a different post.

Now Twilight not withstanding I really liked Montepulciano. I expected the streets to be steeper as I had heard it was a lot of that, but really Cortona felt like it took more effort to wander around. Those streets were pretty steep, but these were not bad. We basically walked every street too see if we found any filming locations we could identify (we watched the scene again when we got there so it was fresh in our mind) and see what we could see. There was some interesting art and it felt like a fancier town and is one I would go back to if we were in the area again. We had some pretty good gelato (dark chocolate and strawberry rosemary which was way better than I expected. Definitely a rosemary flavor but not overpowering. It was delicious and I thought I should have just gotten that!). After seeing all the things we headed back home to relax until dinner time. So many towns today!Read more