The abbey of St. Galgano is found to thirty Maritime Mass kilometers, you overcome the mines of they Gasp in the commune of Montieri, we enter province in Siena, beyond a hill, in a vast lowland they emerge solemn and stately the ruins of the abbey Cistercense of St. Galgano. Built among 1182 and 1185, above to the hut on the hill where St. Galgano lived his/her last year of life and really there where you/he/she had plunged Your Sword in the rock, the Rotunda of Montesiepi was originally the Grave of the Saint, that was buried to north of the sword as to see, through the door of entry, Chiusdino. Only in 1220 (or 1218?) the construction of the great Abbey was initiated to valley. 
The jobs of construction last up to 1268, when you/he/she was officially consecrated by the Bishop of Volterra Alberto Solariums. Then one hundred years of great shine up to 1364 to which it followed the slow decadence given by the unfortunate practice of the he/she Commends. A fact above every other: in 1550 the Commendatario Girolamo Calves it came to sell (after the jewels and who knows thing other) the roof in lead. Despite some attempts to restore the convent at the end in 1789, after the Rotunda of Montesiepi was elevated to Parish, the great abbey you/he/she was desecrated and definitely left to the downfall.
As it is reached
Place Montesiepi Chiusdino Him.
Site recommended web:
http://www.sangalgano.info/
