Sant'Antimo is one of Tuscany's most beautiful abbeys and is not far from Montalcino. Unfortunately, without your own transportation, the abbey is another bus ride away-something I was not interested in after the first bus ride. Next time we go back, I think we are going to go with our own transportation so that we can visit the abbey.
Here is one of the many views off of Montalcino's main road: Via Mazzini
This is the Rocco, or castle. It was begun in 1361 by the Sienesi. Today it has a park inside and is home to an enoteca with a wide selection of very expensive wines from Montalcino. On Sunday there had been a bike race, which ended in Montalcino, so the inside of the Rocco was filled with bikers and on-lookers for the ending ceremony. Hopefully next time it will be quieter.
Once it started to rain, we went to Caffe Enoteca Il Leccio, pictured below so that we could have some Brunello.....
This is the wine Reed picked out:
We actually ended up having two bottles! We mis-read the bus station schedule and had a few extra hours to kill in Montalcino in the rain.....To read more about the wine, check out the post "Vini di Montalcino" on our other blog here.
The wine was very good! Here is the view from the Enoteca:
This is the view of the main road in Montalcino, which has a number of enoteca's and tourist related stores.
The surrounding countryside is so beautiful and the bus ride is really scenic if you don't happen to get sick from hurling around winding country roads. These are a few pictures we snapped at high speed as we drove home towards Siena.
Overall it was a great day in Montalcino and we can't wait to go back (not on the bus though!!)
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