Elevazione al cielo - Raising to the sky

            L’Abbazia di San Galgano sorge in Toscana nella pianura dell’alta Valdimerse, in provincia di Siena. 
In mezzo ai campi, in posizione isolata, con le sua ampie navate rivolte al cielo, la chiesa abbaziale costituisce un monumento insigne dello stile gotico-cistercense in Italia. 
Il nobile Galgano Guidotti, nato nel 1148, dopo una vita di dissolutezza, si ritirò a vita penitenziale sulle colline di Montesiepi. 
Galgano venne canonizzato nel 1185 (dopo soli 4 anni dalla morte), e in suo onore il vescovo di Volterra promosse la costruzione di una piccola cappella. 
Nel 1218 iniziarono invece i lavori della grande chiesa abbaziale (69mt di lunghezza e 29 di larghezza), prendendo come modello le chiese cistercensi francesi; la chiesa venne consacrata nel 1288. Alla fine del XII la l’Abbazia raggiunse l’apice del suo splendore. Purtroppo già nel XIII sec. iniziò il declino della comunità monastica di San Galgano. 
Nel XVI sec. iniziarono i primi cedimenti strutturali della chiesa abbaziale, nel 1781 crollò quello che rimaneva delle volte e nel 1786 crollò il campanile. La chiesa venne infine sconsacrata nel 1789. 
Solo alla fine dell’800 l’interesse verso il monumento riprese a all’inizio del ‘900 venne condotto un restauro conservativo per consolidare quanto era rimasto della struttura originaria.

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Saint Galgano abbey is located in Tuscany (Italy), not far from Siena town. 
It is one of the most representative buildings of the gothic-cistercian architecture in Italy. 
Galgano Guidotti was an Italian noble man born in 1148; after a life of dissoluteness, he decided to retire to penitential life in a place very near to here. He died in 1181 and in 1185 he was canonized. 
In 1218 they started the works for the big abbatial church (69mt length, 29mt width), taking as model the French Cistercian church. The church was dedicated in 1288. 
At the end of XII cent. the community of the abbey reached the maximum splendour, but in the XIII the decadence started. In XVI cent. the first structural settling started in the church, in 1781 what remained of the roof ruined, in 1786 the bell tower fell down and in 1789 the church was desecrated. 
Only at the end of 1800 the interest toward the building restarted and at the beginning of 1900 a restoration was done in order to consolidate what remained of the church structure.

   

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Taken on: April 3, 2010

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