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Old Jun 16th, 2009, 07:40 AM
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Tuscany adventures with kids need help!

My husband, my parents and our two children will be staying outside of Sienna in a villa for a week in July. We are planning on spending one day in Florence, any tips on other places to go in Tuscany that would be interesting for our 10 and 12 year old children?
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My girls like the Torture Museum in San Gimignano when they were that age. They also like climbing the towers in that town and having gelato--lots of gelato! If you go to Lucca, they might like to rent bikes and ride up on top of the walls surrounding the city. In Florence, kids enjoy the Science Museum and La Specola Museum which has fascinating wax models. In Vinci, the museum devoted to Leonardo da Vinci's work is interesting. If you do go to Vinci, try and go to the little town of Artimino and have lunch at Delfino. Get a seat on the terrace and enjoy the amazing view of the Tuscan countryside and Villa Medici.
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I hope you receive some great answers as I am in exactly the same situation!
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Old Jun 16th, 2009, 10:48 AM
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Thanks Grinisa. Any other tips out there?? My husband and I have been to tuscany a few times but always as an adult vacation without the kids. Poutine, if you want to go to the Uffizi museum in florence get tickets NOW. we are going in a month and I did not have a great choice of tickets left.
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Romira,
Click on my name then check the trip reports. Three of the trip reports involve 9 and 10 year olds in Tuscany.

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