Palazzo Vecchio (Old Palace in English) is located in Piazza della Signoria in Florence and is the seat of the municipality of the city. Palazzo Vecchio is the best summary of the civil architecture of the city from the fourteenth century and one of the most famous civil buildings in the world. Originally called “Palazzo […]
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The San Galgano Abbey is a Cistercian abbey, located at about 30 km from Siena, in the municipality of Chiusdino. The site consists of the hermitage (called “circle of Montesiepi”) and the great Abbey of Saint Galgano, now completely ruined and reduced to only walls; it is a tourist destination: Tte absence of the roof […]
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The knight Galgano Guidotti after a libertine youth, gave up his titles and possessions to hermitage in the Sienese countryside , in a place now called Cappella di San Galgano Montesiepi ; in the nearby plain, a Cistercian abbey was built twenty years after his death in 1201 to honor him. It was long prosperous […]
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