Religious itineraries

Since the Middle Ages, the Val d’Orcia has been a privileged area for life as a hermit and for contemplation. The presence of important transit routes, like the Via Francigena, combined with an isolated but not hostile landscape, encouraged hermits and religious communities to settle there and spiritual retreats to be established.

The Via Francigena crosses one of the most captivating and symbolic stretches of the Val d’Orcia, where the pilgrim’s path blends with a landscape shaped over the centuries by human labour, spirituality and history.