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Camaldolese hermitage also called County, The Hermitage is located in the village of Vivo d'Orcia and is located lower than the town that was built later. The Hermitage is made up of a group of houses from which emerges the majestic palace of the Counts Cervini and the church of San Marcello. The palace Cervini was originally a monastery of the Camaldolese, was handed over to the family Cervini in 1517. Incurred prior to the year one thousand, but still visible in the majestic forms sixteenth wanted by Cervini di Montepulciano, which entrusted the realization of a talented architect (probably by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger).
At the foot of the Hermitage is the native forest of fir trees, the fir-wood of live, one of the three native spruce forests of Mount Amiata, who reached the hermitage can also walk through a beautiful small valley where the graceful bridge "the Lovers. "A short distance from the Hermitage is the Romanesque church Ermicciolo, surrounded by a grove of chestnut trees.
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