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Trekking outside the city walls
The Etruscans
Romanesque Churches and Abbeyes
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ROMANESQUE CHURCHES AND ABBEYES
The roof of the XIIth century evocative abbey of St. Galgano is the clear sky of the Val di Merse. The close by chapel of Montesiepi is the perfect place to daydream about the famous sword stuck in the stone and the many legends created around it.
St. Antimo is a beautiful example of a church with a nave and two side aisles near Montalcino. During the Carolingian period it was an abbey. Its ambulatory and matroneum made with travertine and onyx capitals are extraordinary.
Monte Oliveto Major is the mother house of the Benedictine order. It was established in the XIVth century in the middle of the Crete area. Its cloister , painted by Sodoma and Signorelli is really magnificent.
The most powerful Tuscan abbey is St.Salvatore al Monte Amiata. From the IXth century it controls the valleys along the ancient via Francigena. On its façade two towers made of trachyte and a tall presbytery stand on one of the most famous crypts in Europe : a forest of 36 slender pillars dating back to the XIth century.
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Abbadia a Isola
Its name derives from an ancient island emerged from a marshy territory. The imposing abbey of St.Salvatore dates back to the year 1001.It was a shelter for the many pilgrims walking along the close by via Francigena. The church is shaped like a basilica with a nave and two side aisles. Its staircase and baptismal font dating back to the XVth century are remarkable. Here the beautiful polyptich painted in 1478 by Sano di Pietro is to be found. Unfortunately, since the XIVth century this area suffered from a state of decay. The territory around the abbey became cultivated fields till the beginning of the XXth century
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