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Magical Abbey San Galgano feel you are in an enchanted dimension
It is 1 hour and 30 min by car from Massarosa
Magical Abbey San Galgano is wide and Cistercian
without the roof due to a lightning strike that makes it looks like
even bigger
Its perimeter walls never end except in the sky
Cult San Galgano
Cult of San Galgano later became a saint he was who built this place
The Knight arrived in this place at the Hermitage of Montesiepi which is
closed to it of the Abbey and stuck a sword in the stone to transform it into a cross
On December 3 San Galgano is celebrated who died in 1181 after retiring
here following a dissolute life and then following a hermit’s life
Buildings shows up
Building is presented in a place that it represented in its time
an important communication route such as the Maremma Road
Near fields Near woods Near rivers
The plant was austere and followed the canons of the second Cistercian Abbeys
the rules of S. Bernard
Church externally
Externally the building faces east and it has a double sloping facade
and makes it clear that it is divided into three naves
Mullioned windows Side naves where a part of the Cloister is reconstructed
to the right
Scriptorium
You enter the Scriptorium immediately in the ground floor area where the Monks are here
they copied the manuscripts in a large room with two naves and five pillars
cruciforms that support cross vaults
Visits
Visits to the abbey are possible with a ticket of € 5 full and € 4 reduced every day
The Municipality of Chiusdino is the administration that takes care of this place here you can
inform here : https://www.comune.chiusdino.siena.it/it/page/visita-abbazia-di-san-galgano-orari-di-apertura-e-p