Near the medieval fortress Garden Restaurant

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To make it easier and easier to visit the country and its monuments and places the most significant and most interesting tourist routes have been created 5.

The first route includes a visit to the northern part of the city center, the most significant tourist and full of monuments and interesting places. Whatever the destination, the cable car from the parking lot off of Martinelli, the bus stop or route Porta di Borgo, walking a short distance we reach the main square, and from here begins the first route.

Second route includes a visit to the southern part of the old town also known as the Rock of New Castle, no longer exists, or Carmine sull'altura opposite to that of Castel Vecchiotuttora existing and visited in the previous route. Wherever you arrive from the cable car from the parking lot off of Martinelli, the bus stop or route Porta di Borgo, along two short sections you reach Piazza Camisa where to begin the route of access.

The third route coming from the road of Montecatini, after parking the car park near Piazza samples or Largo Martinelli, continue along the road, keep the valley on the left. We begin to walk the "Mura low" in a relaxing walk bordered by large shady plane trees. Even through this route, you can reach places and monuments in the routes described above and at the same time admire the landscape of the Valdinievole that extends all around with highly suggestive scenery of the valley and the ancient countries emerging from the surrounding hills. During medieval times, after all'incastellamento of Monte Catino (written like this in the documents of the time) the country was surrounded by walls and equipped with seven gates (each related to any access road) plus a so-called "secret door" placed under the Podesta. The paths of the walls were divided into: low walls in the northern area (enlarged in modern times, to encircle the whole country, with the completion of the road in the south) and high walls to the south.

The fourth routeor along the county road that comes from Montecatini Terme, Vico placed after the nucleus of the intersection of roads leading to mountains and even Pistoia road through the beautiful olive groves of Nievole upon which the town also Montecatinesi camping and the cooperative of growers, we arrive at the Village Gate. Before arriving in a leafy square in front of a residential complex placed in front of the Old Port, we find ample parking on the left, half hidden by a 'stone wall on the right and the local cemetery. Of the seven gates, which the memory of local historians, opened on the walls that surrounded Montecatini Alto, the only one left, and probably a bit 'moved from the original position is that the Porta di Borgo.

The fifth route is a trekking route of about 30 minutes, which climbs up to Montecatini Alto of olive groves, woods and slopes.

More detailed information, you can find in the tourist guide of Montecatini Alto.

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