Top 10 Things to do in Abbadia San Salvatore, Tuscany

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MULTIMEDIAL MUSEUM "THE PLACES OF MERCURY" The multimedial museum is a project designed by a group of italian artists known at international level. This exhibition, organized in the evocative spaces of the Ex-Officina Meccanica (the former mechanical workshop) represents a site of emotion and awesomeness. DOCUMENTARY MUSEUM "CLOCK TOWER" The Clock Tower hosts the museum and the archive of the former firm that was running the mining exploitation: the Mt. Amiata Company. Originally, part of the Tower was the core of the factory where the buildings containing the Cermak-Spirek furnaces were located UNDERGROUND PATH "DIDACTIC GALLERY LEVEL VII" After concluding the visit to the Multimedial Museum, it is possible to get on the miners' wagon and travel 250 m in a tunnel, where some working setting, including tools and machineries are reconstructed, along with the excavation front. The train route depicts some significant moments of mine work

Laid down on one side of the mountain at 800 metres above the sea level, the abbazia re- gia del SS.mo Salvatore sul Monte Amiata was twinned with St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome by means of a “Sub umbra Petri” decree. There- fore people can gain plenary indulgence here. It was established by Erfo - a Lombard noble- man from Friuli - in the fi rst half of the 8th century, namely at the time of king Ratchis. On the one side, the nobleman wanted to evangelize the people who lived on the moun- tain and, on the other, he wanted to moni- tor the ancient road that crossed the Val di Paglia and that later would be known as Via Francigena. Like other royal abbeys of Lom- bard age, San Salvatore had a close relation- ship with the development of the route that linked Pavia to Rome. In Carolingian times, the abbey numbered about 100 monks and Charlemagne in person stopped over at the abbey in year 800, when his army was hit by plague; the monks healed his soldiers with a medicinal plant that was called Carolina from that moment on. The abbey, whose estate spanned from southern Tuscany to northern Latium, was in charge for the arrangement of the route.