Location: Province of Pistoia
Top Things to do in Province of Pistoia
Top 10 Things to do in Province of Pistoia, Tuscany
The province of Pistoia (Italian: provincia di Pistoia) is a province in the Tuscany region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Pistoia and the province is landlocked. It has an area of 964.12 square kilometres (372.25 sq mi) and a total population of 291,788 inhabitants (as of 2015). There are 22 communes in the province.
Restaurants in Province of Pistoia
1. Cathedral of Saint Zeno
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4.5 based on 458 reviews
This 12th-century cathedral is a principal component of one of the finest piazzas in Italy.
Reviewed By 40dennism - Ripon, United Kingdom
Like so many of the Italian towns with beautiful cathedral, so has Pistoia, If you are there, be sure to visit all the beautiful old buildings, including this Duomo!
2. Funicolare di Montecatini Terme
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4.5 based on 2,427 reviews
Reviewed By K3253ECjoyh
Original tram or funiculare to the old town, worth a ride, get return ticket to ensure that you can get back down again. Great experience
3. Piazza del Duomo
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4.5 based on 977 reviews
Reviewed By jb079 - Leidschendam, The Netherlands
We visited it on a saturday, week market and a full square. It was very nice and alive. During lunch the market broke up and the square reveiled itself. Great!!
4. Piazza della Sala
5. Basilica di Santa Maria della Fontenuova
6. Grotta Maona
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4.5 based on 60 reviews
karst cave located just one kilometer from the city center of Montecatini Terme. immersed in a large natural park that contains other small surprises like an ancient gunpowder deposit made more than 100 years ago in an active natural cave and a small climbing wall the structure has ample parking, bar and restaurant service the main cave is a place of winter hibernation by a colony of bats, hence the choice to close early November to reopen more or less in the Easter period
7. Giardino Zoologico di Pistoia
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4.0 based on 1,552 reviews
Reviewed By AndreaG446 - Sestri Levante, Italy
Excellent attraction !! Very well kept and located in the middle of a wood. So even in a very hot day you can stroll around comfortably. You can find here many nice and particular animals: lions, hippos, elephants, suricati, Penguins, lemurs, snakes, etc. Highly suggested !!!
8. Storico Giardino Garzoni - Casa delle Farfalle
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4.0 based on 533 reviews
Reviewed By Brun066 - Florence, Italy
Those who reach the Villa Garzoni Garden without having seen any image before, are struck by the extraordinary glance that it offers as soon as you leave the building now used as a ticket office and look inside. In fact, the flat space, on which the garden could be developed, is limited, therefore the most typical geometric solutions of the Renaissance "Italian garden" can be deployed in a limited space as well. However this flat space is cleverly organized, by the round basins of two large fountains, in which the water sprays are a constitutive part of the architecture. But this isn't a Renaissance garden; it's a baroque one. Moreover, thanks to its very long building period, it denotes by its features an intellectual restlessness that can also make us speak of Enlightenment, or of pre-Romanticism. These more modern styles have driven the extension of the garden on the steep back hill: if the nymphaeum recalls the artificial cave by Bernardo Buontalenti at the Boboli Gardens in Florence (thus giving a taste of late Renaissance), the terraced slope or the hill modeled by the dense vegetation, which leads to the summit and draws the gaze towards it, allows us the comparison (though in miniature) with other more recent and more famous examples of gardens: the names, among others, of the Royal Palace in Caserta and of the Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel, were made. Indeed, among the architects who worked in the garden, or in the nearby villa, Ottaviano Diodati, translator in Italian of the Encyclopédie; or the renowned Filippo Juvarra, are mentioned. Last but not least, the scenographic effect of the garden is enhanced by the clear, almost fairy-like façade of the Villa; behind it the extraordinary, steep row of the Collodi hamlet's ancient houses, peeps in turn.
9. Castello di Monsummano Alto
10. Parco delle Terme di Montecatini
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 166 reviews
Reviewed By adriana2020Italy
It must see, you can see the fountains in the winter, the drinking water areas and actual swimming are closed in the winter. Great area to relax, walk and have a pic nic, free to walk around and $10 to swim during the summer at specific spring.
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