When it comes to cooking, the choice of products makes the difference. It surely does.
The quality and origin of the food you choose for your dishes is a key element, especially if you are going to prepare high-quality and, at the same time, healthy food. The ideal would be to have a vegetable garden of one’s own, to be used to cultivate seasonal products, and, why not, also as a space to breed barnyard animals.
However, not everyone has such opportunity, not even in Valdichiana Senese.
That is why knowing where and when there are weekly markets in the area could be helpful. In every municipality, every week, there is a market where you can buy rigorously first-rate products.
That of the weekly markets is definitely an experience not to be missed, neither for locals, nor for foreigners. In addition to the products, each market is characterized by the popular atmosphere that, for the most part, has always distinguished Tuscany and its villages.
Here’s the list:
MONDAY
Celle sul Rigo, hamlet of San Casciano dei Bagni: every first monday of the month
Chiusi Scalo: on mondays
TUESDAY
Acquaviva, hamlet of Montepulciano: every second tuesday of the month
Chiusi, old town centre: on tuesdays
Montefollonico, hamlet of Torrita di Siena: on tuesdays, in the afternoon
Montepulciano Stazione, hamlet of Montepulciano: every fourth tuesday of the month
Sinalunga, old town centre: on tuesdays
WEDNESDAY
Chianciano Terme – Via della Pace and Via dello Stadio: on wednesdays
THURSDAY
Castelmuzio, hamlet of Trequanda: every third thursday of the month
Montepulciano – Piazza Pietro Nenni: on thursdays
Petroio, hamlet of Trequanda: every second thursdays of the month
Piazze, hamlet of Cetona: on thursdays
San Casciano dei Bagni: every first and third thursday of the month
Trequanda: every first thursday of the month
FRIDAY
Pienza – Ex foro Boario and Via Mencatelli: on fridays
Sarteano – Piazzale Primo Morgantini: on fridays
Torrita di Siena – Old Town Centre: on fridays
SATURDAY
Bettolle, hamlet of Sinalunga: on saturdays
Cetona – Piazza Garibaldi: on saturdays
Montepulciano – Piazza Grande: every second saturday of the month “Art and Antiques Monthly Market”
Montepulciano Stazione, hamlet of Montepulciano – Piazzale Europa: on saturdays
S.Albino, hamlet of Montepulciano – Piazza dei Lillà: on saturdays
Torrita di Siena – Piazza del Mercato: on saturdays
SUNDAY
Chiusi Città: every last sunday of the month, “Porsenna’s Market”
Montepulciano – Piazza Grande: every second sunday of the month “Art and Antoiques Monthly Market”