Certosa di Pisa. It was built in 1330 in baroque style. The “galleria dei benefattori” is worth seeing.

Chiusdino: San Galgano Abbey was built in gothic cistercian style in 1228. Today there remain only the walls while the roof got destroyed. The copper that was on the roof was sold by a greedy bishop and, without the copper that protected it from bad weather the roof was ruined. 500 meters from the abbey there is a little church with the Sword in the Rock. The noble knight Galgano Guidotti, after thousands of adventures, spent there his last years preaching and doing penance and here he put the sword in the rock, so as we can still admire.

Montalcino: Sant’Antimo Church, famous benedectine abbey of the IX century founded by Carlo Magno. The church in romanic style represents a great example of medieval monastic architecture.

Santuario di La Verna, where San Francesco, in 1224, received the stigmas. Camaldoli, with Della Robbia’s bas-reliefs.

Pomaia: Buddhist University.

Monte Oliveto Maggiore: the smallest dioceses in the world, see of the Oliveto’s benedectines. Centre of the Crete Senesi.

Madonna del Frassine, it’s a sanctuary built on an old oratory. On the altar there is a wood Madonna of the XIII century.

Madonna di Fucinaia near San Vincenzo. The name derives from Fucina, that is fusing furnace: in the vicinity there were actually found Etruscan furnaces for copper fusion.