Located about 30km west of Siena and off the road to Massa Maritima, it's well worth taking the side road to find the abbey and to wander round and enjoy the peace and quiet.
The Abbey of Saint Galgano (Abbazia di San Galgano) was built by Cistercian monks from the late 12th Century, the abbey fell into decline from the 15th century and is now open to the sky.
Click -HERE- for an English language translation of a rather incomplete website about the abbey
Other places
Here's a few other scanned pictures from various places around Italy
The straits of Messina looking across to Sicily in a rather unusual purple evening light
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