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Tour/Package Length: 9 hours.
Dates: Every season.
Departure Point: From your accomodation.
Departure Time: Between 8.00-9.00 am.
Days of Week: Everiday.
Note: During this excursion transport will be made in a de-luxe limousine or minivan or motorcoach which offers the maximum comfort, with air-conditioning, large panoramic windows and comfortable seats.
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The Sword in the rock

The Sword in the Stone placed in 1180 by Galgano Guidotti on Montesiepi’s Hermitage. This was the only known miracle performed by St. Galgano … but over 800 years later, it’s still visible

Lorenzetti' chapel - Stories of the Virgin

The small chapel is posthumous if compared with the rest of the Round. It was built and badly connected to the Round only in 1340, by will of Vanni of the Salimbeni. Ambrogio Lorenzetti was called to fresco it.

The great Abbey of Saint Galgano

The big St. Galgano’s Abbey was built between 1220 and 1268, when in Italy the Romanesque style was merging with the newborn French Gothic style. The Abbey’s shape is the classic Latin cross. We find it impossible to describe the beauty of this abbey, so we’ll let the pictures to speak in our place.

St. Galgano's life St.

Galgano’s story is a bit unusual, but it’s very similar to St. Francesco’s one, that is much more famous. Born in Chiusdino in 1148 from Guido and Dionisia, Galgano Guidotti is said to be born for the intercession of the archangel Michael. Galgano led a dissolute life until the age of 20, when the Archangel Michael appeared to him in dream twice. In this way began young Galgano’s conversion. He started to preach about Siena and in the nearby, until the time he withdrew to a hut that will become his Hermitage on the Mount Siepi. He met Pope Alessandro III who blessed him and encouraged him to build an Abbey near the hermitage. He came back to the hermitage where, despite her mother’s and Polissena’s (his fiancée) despair and the scorn of the others knights, he performed his only known miracle: he deeply stuck his sword in the stone (1180?), so that the hilt could form a cross. He died at the age of 33 on December, 3rd 1181. That was the same year when St. Francesco was born.