San Galgano
Today a couple of friends and I went to San Galgano near Siena, a wonderful medieval abbey with a nice hermitage/church on the top of a nearby hill. The weather was nice, if a bit chilly, and the place was awesome. We shot a ton of pictures and I spent some time stitching them together as panorama pictures.
The San Galgano abbey from the parking.
On top of the hill, the hermitage where - according to the legend - the former knight Galgano retreated from worldly life and thrust his sword into the bare rock.
The abbey from the surrounding courtyard.
And this is the beautiful abbey from the inside. This panorama picture can also be viewed using a Silverlight "Deep Zoom" viewer. Check it out. 
After walking to the top of the hill following a steep trail, we reached the hermitage of San Galgano where some of the rests of the saint are conserved and the sword he cast into the rock is still on display.
The view from the hermitage on the valley.
And here some other pictures:
