We will be traveling from Venice to San Gimignano on Easter Sunday. What is the best way for us to get there? Train or car rental? We plan on renting a car once we get to Tuscany anyway. If we take the train, where is best place to pick up a car? We will travel on to Rome by train, so we will need to drop the car off as well.
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Many rental car locations are closed on Sundays, and I would anticpate a few more may be closed on Easter Sunday. You might consider this: pick up a rental car at Mestre on Saturday evening and park it near the train station. The rental car location should be able to recommend a lot. Trains between Venice Santa Lucia station and Mestre are inexpensive and frequent, even on Sundays. Drop off in Orvieto and take the train from there to Rome. Alternate plan: take the train to Florence and rent a car there for the drive to San Gimignano. You can check for rental car locations near the train station (and outside the ZTL), but airport pick-up may be your best bet on Easter Sunday. It's easy to drive from the Florence airport to San Gimignano. Plan to either take or rent a GPS with European maps.