Broken Window, San Galgano, Tuscany, Italy

            The Abbey of San Galgano, built between 1218 and 1288, was the first Gothic church built in Tuscany. Cistercian monks from Casamari (Frosinone) settled the area close to the banks of the river Merse. While the Abbey was once powerful and important, it fell on hard times: famine (1329), a plague decimated the monks (1348), various armies sacked and burned the Abbey. In 1786, lightning struck the bell tower which collapsed on the roof and left the great church open to the skies. The church was deconsecrated in 1789.
Who was Galgano? He was a Tuscan knight who may very well have been Galvano and/or Gawain of the tales of Arthur and the Holy Grail. He founded the nearby hermitage, a round structure, by sinking his sword into the stone: the real Excalibur? In Chretien de Troyes ‘Perceval, the story of the Grail’, which was completed around the time of Galgano’s canonisation, it is Gawain/Galvano and not Arthur who carries Excalibur, which is described as ‘the finest sword there was, which sliced through iron as through wood’.
Galgano's sword, stuck in the stone, is still there in the hermitage.
   

Taken in: Italia / Toscana / Monticiano (show map)

Taken on: June 10, 2013

Tags:

Crete Senesi

Italia

Olympus e-pl1

Toscana

Tuscany

provincia di Siena

San Galgano

Olympus 40-150mm

architecture « less

Sets appears in: • Italy, Italia

Groups appears in: • FlickrCentral • Italy more » • Photographs of Italy • GeoTagging Flickr • Ruined churches and ruined places of worship • Flickritis: over 87,000 waiting for a vaccine. • FlickrToday (only 1 pic per day) • Olympus Users • CHURCHES & HOUSES OF WORSHIP • Italy in Black & White • Italia, questa sconosciuta. • Chiese Italiane • Geotagged : Italy • Italy, Best of / L'immagine dell'Italia • Doors, Windows, and Steps • Tutta Italia! • Italian Flickr World • VIVA L'ITALIA - 150, CAOS • Fiero dell'Italia - Proud of Italy • Everything Italian Post.1.Comment.1 • Olympus Amateurs • Camminare e fotografare – per strade di bosco e di città • Get Olympus • Olympus Pen E-P1, E-P2 & E-P3 and All Other Olympus Pen Cameras • Olympus PEN Pals • OLYMPUS PEN E-PL1 • Olympus Pen E-PL1 Users Group • Olympus Zuiko Digital 40-150 mm • BEST IMAGES OF ITALY (P1-A2; SWEEPER) • Olympus Europe - Photography • Italy in pictures « less

Stats: 4,557 views / 7 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder