montecatini alto

It was a beautiful town to take the rail up, walk around, have a bear and listen to music. Perfect ending to a nice evening.

Quaint, Charming and a beautiful ambiance......a must for lunch and souvenir's!! The views of the surrounding countryside are truly awesome, the locals are fantastically friendly!!

Montecatini Alto looks like a small medieval Italian village. Very nice, neat with excellent views. The scenery around is superb. It was really nice to walk there and then sit in a small restaurant with breathtaking view.

great location, beautiful scenery, easily accessible to other towns and cities, hotel charming, people friendly, many restaurants and shops nearby

Montecatini Alto is an Italian medieval Village with a small central plaza (Piazza Giusti) full of life and restaurants. The village is so small that if one parks outside the town one doesn’t have to walk more than a few feet to get to the piazza. Over there is “Casa Gala”. Simon is the owner, but he is also the host, the other waiter, the maître d’ and above all, not the chef but the creator of food. The restaurant has only a few tables and walking around them is Simon taking care of each one of his customers. He gets involved into what we want to eat, does not have an opinion about it, but he will give an advise, disappears into the kitchen and will come back bringing each dish with such a pride that it is possible to know, way before the first bite, that that meal will be extraordinary. For us it was an amazing experience to eat at Casa Gala. Again, it wasn’t only that food of excellent quality that, alone, is worth the trip; it was Simon who, without a plan for it, made sure that we had the best meal on our trip to Tuscany.

Typical Tuscan village of "hill". Small, pretty, neat, with a great view on a clear day.Be sure to see "presepe" in church

Beautiful simplistic place with fantastic views and nice restaurants! A must! It is easy to get a bus there and back!

It's very comfortable and beautiful city. You can also make a good shopping there because there are many good as luxury as middle class shops

Loved the views and it is only a very short trip from our hotel.... Hated the skinny winding road getting to the top. Very disappointed at our lunch

The view is amazing. Must walk around the area and see the homes in the area and the alley ways are just so "Italian". Gusto's is a great place to eat. The food is delicious and the staff very nice.

If you're blessed with a clear day, take your car (or the funicolare if it's running), and go to Montecatini Alto. Eat outside near the tower, explore on foot, and don't miss the wonderful ceramics shop.

MonteCatini Alto was beautiful. The view of the countryside was beautiful and the town was vey quaint. Visit the old churches,enjoy gelato and pizza, have a fine glass of wine and people watch. The prices were very reasonable. Make sue you can walk uphill because the town is on the side of a hill!!

We went off season...much of the town closed. It is historical however with lovely views! We walked beautiful old streets with buildings going back hundreds of years. We really enjoyed the beautiful architecture.

Could stay there and eat forever so much choice beautiful surroundings and friendly staff great atmosphere and typical Italian surroundings we loved it there

After using the funicolare cablecar to reach Montecatini alto, we had a little wander around with a few other members of our National Holidays coach tour. It was a very nice village with a beautiful centre which included a gathering of restaurants, a war memorial and a gift shop. We ventured further on into the village to discover a church which was very nicely detailed within;slightly further up from the church, we discovered a strange monument type thing to from what I could gather ( a field gun and fire-fighting equipment) to be a monument to the saint of the aforementioned things. There was also a fort type thing, which was unfortunately not open. We did not have time to explore the other side of town, but did find a place to stare out at the beautiful panoramic sunset. The view was astounding and allowed you to see for miles into the distance. The village is well worth a visit!