Every Saturday post a photo with a storic church to spread culture :-)
Abbadia a Isola is a small interesting medieval village, it’s lies just 4 km from Monteriggioni along the road to Colle Val d’Elsa. The small village, built around the Cistercian Abbey of San Salvatore, which was founded here in the tenth century, was in medieval times, a stopping place for pilgrims along the Via Francigena. Here was founded in the early eleventh century, the Benedictine Abbey of San Salvatore. A few years after its founding, the Abbey gained imperial privileges. In the twelfth century the Abbey came under the protection of the city of Siena that fortified it with defensive works and with a moat.
The Abbey Church was consecrated in 1173 in honor of San Cirino: with its three-apse and three-naves layout, poly-lobed pillars alternating with columns of Lombard derivation is a classic example of Benedictine Abbey of the Val d'Elsa. A typical pilgrimage churches twin portal - only partially visible today - (style in in use beyond the Alps) opened out from the facade.
