I will be spending five days in Fiesole mainly to see gardens with a dip into Florence one day for a couple of museums (I have previously been to the lovely gardens within Florence). I have five more days before I need to be in Paris/Dijon and am looking for advice on where to go in Liguria, Tuscany or Emilia Romagna. I've spent time in Florence before, a couple of weeks in Lucca for school, Parma, Bologna, but nowhere else in the area south of Milan, east of Genoa and north of Florence. I will be without car, fine with public transportation, and hoping to see another garden or two. I've never been to Pistoia, Viareggio, Pisa or the Cinque Terra (scared off the latter by tourist throngs). I'd love advice on where people have enjoyed staying too (a pensione would be perfect). Grazie!
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Boise, ID, USA
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You don't say when you're going, so it might depend on that...
I've been to Pistoia, Pisa and the Cinque Terre. I would recommend Liguria north of the Cinque Terre: Santa Margherita Ligure is where I spent nine days last September. Visit Camogli on a day trip.
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Maybe work backwards, given your need to fly/train? to Paris or Dijon? There are many gardens in western Liguria (I googled "gardens in Liguria" and see several interesting ones), so you could take a train along the coast, choosing one coastal base, then zip up to Turin or Milan for outbound travel.