San Quirico d'Orcia is located on the Via Francigena, an ancient road between Rome and Canterbury, passing through England, France, Switzerland and Italy. The Via Francigena was an important medieval road, pilgrimage route that connected northwestern Europe with Rome.
The town has a beautiful panorama which culminates with a severed medieval tower, a restored Romanesque church (a crucifix by Giambologna was preserved inside, now kept in the Montalcino museum, and a baptismal font from the 15th century, now in the Collegiate Church of San Quirico) and, next to the church, the real estate system (rebuilt in the early nineties) of the fifteenth-century Palazzo degli Amerighi, where the conspiracy against the Spanish oppressors of Siena (1555-1559) was hatched.
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