The municipal territory of San Gimignano extends for 138,83 square kilometres on the hills of the Val d’Esla. Village on the Via Francigena, then castle, then free municipality, it became Seat of Community in 1776.   Recorded for the first time in 929 in an act of donation by King Ugo di Povenza to the Bishop of Volterra, who had jurisdiction on the whole territory, San Gimignano was at that time a modest village on the Via Francigena, [..]