*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026
Hello friends, happy Wednesday! I hope this post finds you well-rested and enjoying a large mug of coffee. I’m dropping by just briefly to share my latest travel offering: A Week in San Donato in Poggio, Tuscany. I’m especially excited to share this post because, before we visited, I found an annoying lack of travel guides/blogs mentioning San Donato. The general gist I got from the internet was that most people just drive through en route to the bigger Tuscan towns without giving it a chance. Friends: those people are missing out! Fiancé & I had the pleasure of visiting San Donato with his family last month to celebrate a big birthday and it was totally perfect! In a nutshell: we ate, we drank, we relaxed, we ate, we wandered the picturesque streets, and we ate some more. Can I tell you about it?
As always, there’s heaps of information below, and more recommendations than you’ll likely need. Before you visit / where we stayed / shopped / ate / and tourist-ed. Enjoy!
before you visit
A few small things to keep in mind if you’re thinking of visiting San Donato in Poggio! Practical information – getting there, business opening hours, and the local wildlife.
the easiest way to get to San Donato in Poggio is to drive – it’s only a 40-minute journey from Florence. However! If you wanted to get public transport, you’d be looking at 2-3 bus changes, and around a 2-hour journey.
all the shops – the bakery, butcher, Coop, pharmacy, etc. – have crazy opening hours. They operate from 8am-12pm, and then 4pm-8pm, except on Sundays, when it’s just from 8:30am-12:30pm. Wild!
I always knew there were snakes in Italy, but I’d never seen one before – until now. On the very first night in town, Fiancé and I were walking home late in the dark, and the light from my torch illuminated a snake right in our path. It terrified me to my very core, and I was on the brink of a panic attack the whole way home. I said it to the apartment owner, hoping she would tell me I was crazy and seeing things etc. – but instead she told me yes, there are snakes, but “only vipers sometimes”. I was not comforted in the least.
there’s very little to do in San Donato in Poggio, and that’s exactly the reason you should go! Relax, lounge around, eat all the good Tuscan food, do nothing; it’s wonderful! Added bonus: because it’s so quiet, you get all the charm of the larger and more well-known towns without all of the annoying tourists! Silver linings!
where we stayed
