San Galgano + the sword in stone
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DoFlorence & TuscanyChiusdino · 35 km southwest of Siena
Hala says
Two sites, fifteen minutes apart. The Gothic abbey of San Galgano is roofless, its walls and arches open to the sky, grass where the floor used to be. The Eremo di Montesiepi above it houses a sword embedded in stone, the actual Arthurian-legend version (more or less), left there by the 12th-century knight-turned-hermit Galgano Guidotti. Detour country between Florence and the coast.
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- Neighborhood — Chiusdino · 35 km southwest of Siena
From the HALA guide, reviewed August 2026.
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