The neighborhoods of the village are decorated by the presence of the Rotunda of Saint Galgano, an exclusive example of Romance church at circular base in the Sienan territory. Ancestral memories evoke its realization, in 1184, in the place where Galgano Guidotti had lived its hermitage during its last year of life, in 1181, and where it had its conversion which it solidified in the terrestrial world while plunging celebrates it sword in the rock. The veneration of the knight of Chiusdino had immediate and very vast echoes. Ballast bright elements quoted in several documents (as the symbolism which constellates its history, the sword in the rock, the dates), raise question important concerning the myth of the Round table, until wondering whether one would not have to identify with Galgano Galaad of the French epopee and, consequently, the incipit of the cycle of king Arthur. The multiple references of the account to the East, moreover, are related to another captivating history, that of the Templars, which had for this place of worship a great interest and certain factors of construction are still currently under discussion, on the basis of bond with the secret doctrines of the Order. In the side chapel one can admire the frescos and sinoples of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, whereas behind the furnace bridge is sheltered a particular testimony, two amputated hands: according to the tradition, a wolf tore off them with the person who, in 1181, destroyed the hut set up by Galgano.
Festival of the ciaccino Ciciano - 1^ Sunday. september Festival of the cake Montalcinello - 1^ Sunday. Mercatini - Fairs Extensions - Antique dealing Extension market antique dealing and hobbistica Second Sunday of August tourism and culture Saint Galgano - a capolavoro to open sky To little distance from Chiusdino and two steps from the Merse river one stands out solitary l' Abbey of Saint Galgano (1182-1185), a monumental complex between the most known. It is un' abbey cistercense {l' Cirstercense order is born to Citeaux, in Borgogna, in 1098, in order to assert with more discipline the Benedictine rule that was gone attenuating) that it caught up a great splendor around the 1200/1300. It lived alternate vicissitudes then, till the end of the ' 700, when, a lightning colpi' the bell tower, making to collapse the last times of the roof (great part of the cover in lead had been already sold in the half of XVI the century) that it will not be never more reconstructed. It arrives thus l' abandonment and the sconsacrazione. Today also not being more a place than cult, visit, however, in a religious one Hush. Taking a walk between these spaziosi atmospheres the life of the monastero can be imagined. They want hours to us in order to one by one observe the honor of the capitelli, in order to admire the many times that seem to run after themselves. L' abbey is a capolavoro to whose beauty contributes also the landscapes encircle that it. The council is that one to visit it to the sunset, in order to admire the perspective dell' architecture that is melted with the colors of the sun that comes down. tourism and culture park of the forest of the dream The paths of the forest are espositivi corridors and the trees make from background the works to admire. We are in the Park Forest of Dream, on the hills that encircle Siena, neighbor all' Institute for the Meditation and spiritual Increase Osho Miasto, in a museum all' opened where they emerge or they are camouflaged beyond two hundred sculptures in stone of Must Manfred. Someone high is varied meters, real towers, others are more lowlands or rasoterra. Pebble on pebble (of form, various dimensions and colors), puttinges a sull' other, supported simply without some material that can make from adhesive and without some implantation. It is gone around to us in contemplation and in Hush and, in order not to get lost in the forest, it comes proposed a main distance " Zen-Way" that white man is marked in the forest with grey round stones with a circle, that they bring back the visitor all' origin of the distance, Besides this main path us of is others, than nell' entirety forms a maze (all' income however comes delivered a map), while every month during or around the full moon there are serali walks, connected with concerts all' opened.