Monastero di San Bruzio, Magliano in Toscana

From Magliano in Toscana, take the road back to the intersection for Marsiliana and head left (the only way). Not far from the intersection, on your left you'll see the remains of San Bruzio monastery. This religious settlement was an important presbitery, remembered since the 13th-14th century. Between its walls were offered hospitality at the old priests of the local diocese: they started a commonlife, like a kind of monastery. Today survives the rests of the presbiterial part, with the central apse, two wings of the transept and the octagonal foundation of the Dome (Cupola).

The architecture of S.Bruzio remember closely the Lombard style of the northern Italy, but in some particulars - the decorations of the abside, the column capitals and the lightness of its global form - we can see the developement of a primordial Gothic style. In the scarces rests we can still admire many sculptures and other fine carved furnishings.