The sword in the stone, in the chapel next to the Gothic Abbey of Saint Galgano at Montesiepi. Known as the "sword in the stone," the Tuscan "Excalibur" is said to have been plunged into a rock in 1180 by Galgano Guidotti, a medieval knight who renounced war and worldly goods to become a hermit.

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Montesiepi

San Galgano's hermitage on the hill called Montesiepi. The small round chapel of Montesiepi preserves the sword in the stone that San Galgano plunged into a rock to have an altar to pray at.

The inside of the domed roof is constructed with 24 concentric circles of alternating white stone and terracotta - a different and very beautiful small "neo-Etruscan" space. The church also preserves a series a frescos by the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

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