An authentic testimony to the medieval era, the Abbey of San Galgano, debuts in the landscape between the villages of Chiusdino and Monticiano, like a mighty reminder of the past. A place that draws its roots from a remote history, guardian of enigmas, legends and treasures of a distant era. An exploration of this site, nestled among wonderfully green meadows, is a leap back in time to Tuscany.
St. Galgano Abbey is inextricably linked to the figure of its saint, a former knight who chose to renounce worldly seductions and devote himself totally to religious life. Galgano Guidotti, who went from being a knight to becoming a hermit, devoted to a life of prayer and meditation, left the most lasting sign of his conversion by thrusting his own sword into a rock at the Hermitage of Montesiepi, turning it into a cross.
