Today we went to the town of San.Gigimano. It is a small but popular town in central Italy. *History*. In Italy people started runing out of space to build two tto four storie bulidings so they started building them as great big towers. In Florence they made a law that these towers shouldn't be more than 20 meteres high so all the towers that were taller than that got knocked down to 20 meteres.the average hight for one of these towers was 60 meteres. It is one of the only citys in Italy with the original towers. Original hight stone etc. The tallest tower in San.Gigimano was fifty-four metres tall. Inside they had a small museum with a few paintings afew busts and some weapons and armour. We also climbed the tower and got a great view of the city as well as the Tuscan countryside surounding the small city. One of the busts inside the museum was of a teenage girl named St.Fina. At age ten she caught a very serious illness. she refused to stay in bed so she layed on a wooden table in the basment of her house for five years. After time her body started to bond to the board. Her flesh became food for rats and bugs. When she was buried Wisteria grew where she had layed. She died at the age of fifteen. When she died she bacame a saint imediatly because of her great faith. Sge was said to be the nicest person to ever have lived. Also in San.Ggmnano we saw a small cathedral. It had magestic frescos of stories from the old and new testament. In San.Gigimano we ate the world champions for gelato for the years 2006-2007-2008-2009. I got Rasberry Mint And Nutella. My mom got Pistachio, and Pear. Ingrid got Mango and Orange chocolate
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