San Galgano
The fascinating remains from one of Tuscany’s most famous monasteries of all times
The noble knight Galgano Guidotti became a Cistercian monk and erected a chapel on Montesiepi in 1180, where he chose to live as a hermit the rest of his life.
The Cistercian monks subsequently made an abbey and an oratory built in honor of Galgano, who became saint.
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Abbey
In the stretch of Tuscany between Siena and Massa Marittima, immersed in the countryside, there are the spectacular remains of the San Galgano Abbey, one of the most important Tuscan monasteries. The noble knight Galgano Guidotti became a Cistercian monk and erected a chapel on Montesiepi in 1180, where he chose to live as a hermit […]
Eremo Di Montesiepi
The nearby Montesiepi hermitage with its mysterious Excalibur, the sword that San Galgano plunged into a rock, when he decided to abandon his life as a wealthy gentleman. Galgano’s gesture of peace and his short and intense life strongly moved his contemporaries. In 1185, only four years after his death, Pope Lucius III proclaimed him […]
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