Try The Best Ice-Cream In The World

If you feel like eating the best ice-cream in the world, you're going to need to find a luxury villa in San Gimignano. Located in the central Piazza della Cisterna, known all over the world and visited by a large number of celebrities is the Gelateria Dondoli or Gelateria di Piazza. The gelateria has won countless awards, invents flavour combinations that attract gourmet-lovers to the town on a regular basis and has made it World Champion on two occasions. Arguably, this is one of the best places in the entire world to try some ice-cream and, particularly in a land known for its ice-cream, this is no small claim.

Owned by Sergio Dondoli, the ice-cream parlour is part of the long tradition of home-made ice-cream in Italy. A Master Ice-cream Maker (one of just ten in Italy today), Dondoli promotes passion and creativity in ice-cream making and stuns customers with his creations. His experience in the business, understanding of flavours and experimental soul have meant that he has created some very original and unusual flavours. Among his most famous creations are Crema di Santa Fina (cream of saffron and pine nuts) gelato, Champelmo (pink grapefruit and sparkling wine), Dolceamaro (cream with aromatic herbs) and Vernaccia sorbet but the store offers a positively mind-boggling selection of flavours that ensures you'll find the right one for you.

The parlour is consistently mentioned in the most important travel and food guides and is continuously visited by national and international media outlets. Produced daily with very fresh, rigorously selected ingredients, the quality of the product is beyond compare. Additionally, (and surprisingly) this gelateria happens to be one of the cheapest in all of Tuscany.

If you're visiting San Gimignano, this is one shop you won't want to miss and if you're visiting Tuscany and can travel around a bit, it's well worth the trip to the town for the gelato alone – though the town itself is a delight as well!