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Monastery complex that gave the city its name

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.

“Each of these crosses can tell its own story and what prompted people to erect “their” cross at this point. (...) These wayside crosses were erected as visible signs and attract the attention of many people. The cross is a symbol of life. It stands as a sign of our Christian hope and wants to direct our gaze to Jesus Christ, who has overcome death (...). The cross is part of our life as it was in the life of Jesus. So I wish that many people … visit the crosses, whether as places of stillness and breathing space before God, whether as places for community gatherings, prayer and praise to God.” (Text source: Dean Rainald M. Ollig in: "Crossroads... small sacred monuments as a sign of popular piety")

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

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. https://www.visittuscany.com/it/idee/abbadia-san-salvatore-5 -things-to-do-in-the-village-sullamiata/