Montepulciano Day 3 Montefollonico

We had planned to take the bus to Montefollonico and hike the 7.5 km back to Montepulciano. When we got to the tabacco shop to buy it tickets, their machine was broken. So, plan B
was a 14km loop walk just outside the town of Montepulciano after breakfast.
At breakfast, we met a couple of physical therapists from Montana, who we first met at the Osteria Aquacheta on our first night here. We were chatting and discussed the public transport difficulties and our need to change hiking plans this morning. They were leaving after breakfast back to Vincenza, where he works on an American army base.
To our surprise, they returned after 10mins and said that they had extended their trip by another day and if we liked, they would drop us off at Montefollonico so we could do the hike without catching the bus.

Montefollonico is a tiny mediaeval town with 3 gates, 3 streets, 3 churches and a total population of 700. It took us a total of 15 minutes to totally explore the town. The hike back to Montepulciano was picturesque, colourful and serene.

On the way back we stopped at Church of San Biagio. I'll let the pictures show the beauty of the church and it's surroundings.

Today was a maximum of 7⁰C with a constant chilly wind blowing for the entire day. So we abandoned all plans to go to the Christmas markets and are now hibernating in the apartment, thawing out.

Distance walked 17.7kmRead more