At the beginning of April I wrote that Sambuca di Sicilia in Agrigento Province had, in a TV poll, been named the most beautiful village in Italy, much to the consternation of the inhabitants of Cervo [Liguria], whose beauty I am able to vouch for.
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| The towers of San Gimignano |
Three weeks after this announcement, however. the Spanish newspaper El País ran its own poll and named San Gimignano in Tuscany as the most beautiful borgo in Italy. I have been to San Gimignano two or three times and it is certainly impressive but I would say it is more majestic than pretty. It also has a torture museum which caused me several sleepless nights after my last visit!
Not having been to Sambuca di Sicilia - a state of affairs I hope to put right in the near future - I couldn't say which of the three villages is the loveliest but the competition, like the Sicilian weather, seems to be hotting up.
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| Me in San Gimignano in the 1970s - sorry about the fashion!
San Gimignano has been the setting of, or has featured in, several well-known films, notably Tea with Mussolini in 1999:
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4 comments:
Don't apologise for the fashion. Those photos are priceless :)
Thanks, Laruchka.
Very trendy, Ms Eggleton!
How can anyone judge which is prettiest? So many places have their own charm.
You're right, Liz - impossible to compare.
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