VINCI

Vinci is known all over the world becouse it is Leonardo’s home town.
The tortress is in the middle of a very green countryside that gives it an exclusive and charming aspect.

Places to visit:

• Museo Leonardiano: it is called “castle of the ship” becouse its appearance is like a ship. The museum has the most important and widest collection of Leonardo’s designs as an inventor.

• Leonardo’s native home: Leonardo’s native home is situated in Anchiano, a little place 3 Kms far from the centre of Vinci. It is the house where Leonardo spent his youth. The house is on a pleasant little small hill, it is sourronded by olive trees and it is an interesting example of country architecture. The house was restored in 1986, and inside there are a lot of reproductions of Leonardo’s drawings and the Valdarno map that was traced by Leonardo himself.

• Museo ideale di Leonardo da Vinci: it is the first museum that deals with Leonardo as an artist, a scientist, an inventor and a designer in comparison with his biography, his territories and his modernity for those times.