Abbazia di San Galgano

Southern Europe · Italy

Abbazia di San Galgano, Italy
Photo: Anna.Massini, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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summer
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A roofless Cistercian abbey in the Sienese hills, its Gothic arches open to the sky and grass underfoot. On a nearby hill a sword driven into stone recalls the hermit Galgano's legend.

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