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Abbadia San Salvatore

Abbadia San Salvatore

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Abbadia San Salvatore

Name: Abbadia San Salvatore
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Location: Abbadia San Salvatore, Siena, Tuscany, Italy

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1. Abbadia San Salvatore from Castelnuovo dell'Abate – loop tour

105km

06:03

2,500m

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2. Monte Amiata Climb – Monte Amiata Summit loop from Montelaterone

64.4km

03:54

1,670m

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3. Abbadia San Salvatore – Monte Amiata Summit loop from Piancastagnaio

29.8km

01:54

890m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Fernando Cintra

October 13, 2023

Abbadia San Salvatore, in Tuscany, known for its ancient monastery, experienced mining prosperity in the 20th century. With the closure of the mines, tourism became predominant, making it a landmark of Monte Amiata.

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Nils

February 6, 2021

At the foot of Monte Amiata, a ski area in winter.

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Valter Ballarini

November 27, 2019

Abbadia San Salvatore is a municipality of 6,277 inhabitants in the province of Siena in Tuscany. Abbadia San Salvatore has, due to its altitude and proximity to Mount Amiata, a cold climate in winter and quite mild in summer. In winter temperatures drop below zero thanks to the cold winds coming from Mount Amiata which overlooks the town. The summers, however, are always refreshed by the influence of the mountains; with rain and snow at high altitudes.
History has reserved for this location phases of temporal prestige linked to the monastery of the same name, first Benedictine and then Cistercian, which in feudal times exercised significant power in large territories located on the eastern and western sides of the Amiata. The abbey had mixed fortunes, also due to the frequent clashes both with the powerful Aldobrandeschi family of Santa Fiora, and with the Orsini and in general with the allies of the emperors, especially when the latter maintained conflicting relations with the Papacy of Rome; it was finally suppressed in 1782. A notable turning point occurred only at the beginning of the 20th century when the mining of cinnabar and its refining into mercury began throughout the area. The German engineer Federico Hamman, after whom the town named the road that leads from the mines to the town centre, discovered the mercury deposit at the end of the 19th century: Abbadia San Salvatore quickly became a rich mining and industrial centre, seeing a sudden improvement in quality of life of the inhabitants who, starting from 1900, already had electricity, telephone and water service. In the seventies, mercury mines saw an inexorable slow decline, both due to international competition but above all due to the increasingly scarce and reduced application of the mineral on an industrial level, thus making its extraction less and less convenient. This led the mining company (which at the time employed the majority of the population) to definitively close down, thus putting an end to the industrial parenthesis of Abbadia San Salvatore, which has been experiencing a slow and constant demographic decline since then.
With the closure of the mines, a slow but continuous development of tourism began for the town, transforming itself into one of the most receptive centers of Monte Amiata. visittuscany.com/it/idee/abbadia-san-salvatore-5 -things-to-do-in-the-village-sullamiata/

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Location: Abbadia San Salvatore, Siena, Tuscany, Italy

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Abbadia San Salvatore

1. Abbadia San Salvatore from Castelnuovo dell'Abate – loop tour

2. Monte Amiata Climb – Monte Amiata Summit loop from Montelaterone

3. Abbadia San Salvatore – Monte Amiata Summit loop from Piancastagnaio

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