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Here you will find concerts and Gregorian chant courses, workshops on monastic medicine techniques and courses in writing and making icons.

Hospitality is one of the values ​​that has always characterized the abbey of Sant’Antimo, inhabited over the centuries by Benedictine monks. The abbey is the ideal place to organize days of spiritual retreat for groups of young people and families who can have lunch in the San Benedetto and Santa Scolastica rooms or outdoors in the equipped area adjacent to them. Groups can also take advantage of the self-managed kitchen.

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The monumental complex of Sant’Anna in Camprena is a former 15th century Olivetan Benedictine monastery, an imposing and sober place but also endowed with profound spirituality. Here are preserved a splendid cycle of frescoes by the painter Antonio Bazzi. Currently the monastery is used as a farmhouse managed by the diocese of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza.

Visit the monastery to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of profound spirituality that pervades it, and take the opportunity to allow yourself a few hours of relaxation. Here in summer you will find concerts inside the church and the monastery every year hosts different art courses: painting, drawing, photography , music. The farm has also collaborated for years with the “Scuola Camprena” School of Italian Language and Culture which is less than 1 km from the Monastery.

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Not far from Castiglione stands the Rocca di Tentennano, used for a long time as a sentinel over the area. It is said to have also hosted Saint Catherine of Siena who, according to tradition, learned to read and write here thanks to a miracle. Arriving here, you cannot miss this imposing tower that overlooks the adjacent village of Rocca d’Orcia and stands out over the entire valley.
We advise you to climb the Rocca and enjoy the view but we already warn you that the photos will not be able to do justice to such beauty: here you can enjoy a few hours of relaxation thanks to a restaurant and a refreshment point. The tower is open to the public in the summer every day and on weekends almost all year round.

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Made famous all over the world by famous shots or car advertisements, the typical winding streets with cypresses are one of the favorite spots for all tourists and photographers who visit the Val d’Orcia.

The winding streets surrounded by cypresses that rise up the wonderful hills are perhaps the most famous symbol of the Tuscan landscape. These narrow streets have been immortalized in postcards, car advertisements and in the smartphones and cameras of tourists from all over the world.

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History has seen it as a protagonist at various times, the last of which was during the Second World War when it was chosen as a shelter for the partisans’ ammunition. The tree is also known as the Oak of the Witches, because according to an ancient legend in the past it was the place where they met on the occasion of the Sabbath, a convention during which magical practices and blasphemous rites were performed.

Following a shameful act of vandalism in 2014, after a bureaucratic process that lasted 3 years, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage recognized the Quercia delle Checche as a property to be protected. It has been classified as a monumental tree because it is “of particular public interest”. In fact, in June 2017 it obtained the MiBACT recognition becoming the first Green Monument in Italy.

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Here, among the scents and colors of its landscape, you will find real food and wine excellences such as sheep “cacio”, red wine Orcia DOC, and quality EVO oil. To visit you will find a beautiful fifteenth-century noble palace of the Bandinelli family, on which stands the Cassero tower. Enter Contignano through the two main streets that lead to a beautiful square with a well, and arrive as far as the Church of S. Maria Assunta. Here the Val d’Orcia will envelop you with all its colors, and you can also visit the Chapel of S. Rocco.

In August, do not miss the appointment with the ravioli (an italian typical type of pasta) festival, an unmissable date for the sweet tooth and the most gourmets!

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The Poor Theater of Monticchiello is an extraordinary social project born in the 60s from the need to rebuild the social fabric of the village after the sharecropping crisis and the problem of depopulation. Unique of its kind precisely because its staging is “participated” by all the inhabitants of the village, who very often, in the square, recite themselves.
With the end of sharecropping, the population was drastically reduced, the countryside depopulated and the community had the distinct feeling that the entire cultural identity it had could vanish into thin air. The reaction of the community was therefore to tighten to defend their identity and thus the project for the poor theater of Monticchiello was born.

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