San Quirico d'Orcia San Quirico has a church so old that the village took its name from it and the church is today called simply Collegiata. Originally this church was named Church of Saint Quirico and Saint Judith. Siena's and Arezzo's bishops fought to have it. It is written, somewhere in a book, that in the VIII century AD these two bishops asked an old priest and a new one to say under oath to whom belonged the church and they replayed to Arezzo. But Siena's bishops every now and then tried to take it so that through the years eleven fight occurred , without any result. Then in the XV century AD, when Pope Pio II rose, who was from Pienza and didn't care about Arezzo, the Collegiate of San Quirico became Siena’s , definitely. On the main entrance there two lions lying down one in front of the other: to me they seem to be Siena and Arezzo that have decided to do fifty fifty, at the end. WHAT TO BUY |