The road leading to the Montesiepi hermitage, lined with cypress trees
The roofless Cistercian abbey, with a Latin cross plan and three naves, built in the 13th century and abandoned for around 100 years, looted and deconsecrated
Cypress trees on the rolling hills of Tuscany
Trees lining the road leading to the abbey
A tree-lined road leading to the abbey
The Chapel or Rotunda of Montesiepi, built on the site where the noble knight Galgano Guidotti retired and lived as a hermit until his death in 1181
An abbey situated in the municipality of Chiusdino, consecrated in 1268 and deconsecrated in 1789
The long main avenue leading to the abbey
The unfinished façade of the abbey, with its four columns, three round-arched doors, two single-lancet windows and a floral lintel above the central door
Main entrance with a round arch and decorated frieze
Single-lancet window with a pointed arch, in the Gothic style
The abbey’s right-hand aisle, punctuated by eight pointed arches that supported the vault
The abbey’s three naves and the cruciform pillars with half-columns
The exterior façade of the apse, featuring two courses of three single-lancet windows and two upper oculi of different diameters
The Chapel or Rotunda of Montesiepi, situated on a verdant hill
The left-hand aisle and the enormous cross-shaped pillars
The Gothic-style pointed-arch mullioned windows (incomplete as the central mullions are missing)
The abbey’s ancient, leafy cloister, which had already fallen into ruin by the 18th century
Abbey, built between 1220 and 1268, during a period when the Romanesque style was merging with the emerging Gothic style, which had been introduced from France
On the right, the gable-fronted façade of the abbey, with the Rotonda di Montesiepi in the background
Silhouette of the ruins of the ancient abbey
A Gothic-style pointed-arch mullioned window, the only one complete with its central column and frieze
Pointed-arch mullioned windows, and on the right, the only window comprising the central column and the frieze
A small section of the cloister rebuilt after its destruction, consisting of small arches with paired columns
A mullioned window in the cloister with twin columns, next to the abbey
The abbey’s central nave, which has no roof and is 69 metres long
The two rows of six pointed-arch splayed windows in the abbey’s apse
The remains of the high altar and, at the rear, in the apse, the first row of single-lancet windows of the abbey
The two pointed arches connecting the central nave to the right transept
The large and small oculus windows piercing the walls of the abbey’s apse
The majestic cruciform pillar with attached half-columns and the abbey’s apse
The single-lancet window in the left-hand transept
San Galgano Abbey as seen from the cloister
The central nave of the abbey, with the apse in the background, featuring pointed-arch windows, the large central rose window and the small rose window above it
The abbey’s central nave, which has no roof, is flanked by eight side bays
Silhouette of the upper part of the abbey’s apse walls, featuring two oculi
The large pillars that mark the boundaries of the abbey’s three naves
The abbey’s round arches, characteristic of the Gothic style
The few remaining parts of the abbey’s high altar
The twelve-petalled rose window in the right-hand transept
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Fotografie di Leonardo Bellotti
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