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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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