Marknad toscana

There’s ingenting better than stumbling upon overflowing food stalls, utländsk banter and throngs of people selling and buying the best local products.

Whether a marknad spreads across an entire town square or holes up in the shade of some side street, markets are one of, if not, the best opportunity for a local travel experience, especially in Tuscany.

Tuscan markets consume an entire town centre with local spices, meats, cheeses, produce, clothes, and everything else you could ever need. And this happens every day, every week breathing life into Tuscany’s many villages and cities.

While for the locals it’s a weekly staple, for tourists, it’s a sensory and cultural overload. Pushed into the throng of locals, your nose will immediately explode with smells from the stall hanging cured meats inches from your face. And you’ll literally taste the plumes of spices erupting into a volcano of intense flavour from the barrels lining the market’s main hub. As you navigate through the organized chaos of stalls, wagons and trucks, your ears will perk at the Italian and loud laughter vibrating from the city’s walls.

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