Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected ...

(Getty Images)| A quaint medieval town that's popular with tourists, San Gimignano is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that once featured 65 towers built by wealthy families, though only 13 remain today.

Here are some articles to help you plan out your stay: The fourteen medieval towers on this Tuscan hill are the first things ...