Cistercian abbeys are scattered in France and Italy and are one of the other more beautiful, radiant and authentic expressions of Gothic architecture.
One of the most splendid is the Abbey of San Galgano, built from 1218.
San Galgano, for fans of ecclesiastical history, was probably born in 1148 in Chiusdino, now in the province of Siena and Guidotto Dionigia in a family of local nobility, and died November 30, 1181, the day of the liturgical celebration. [
Galgano had a disorder marked by youth and lust, except later converted to religious life and retire to a hermit who lived with the same intensity with which he had previously practiced every kind of debauchery.
The building, which today only the ruins remain immersed in the Siena countryside, is situated in the Sienese near Monticiano. The lack of a roof in a way it enhances the articulation and elegance of the architectural lines that soar toward the sky.
The building is impressive and testifies thus to the spread and large following of the cult of Saint Galgano.
The abbey reached in the fourteenth century, a great power, thanks to the immunities and privileges granted by various emperors, such as Federico II, and the munificent donations, this was added to the exemption from the tenth Pope Innocent III.
After a period of glory that reached its height during the Renaissance, began a slow decline that would have reduced to a great mystic ruins.
The original church was built on nearby Mount Siepi around the sword stuck in the rock, which according to tradition, belonged to San Galgano.
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