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Autumn Festival in Abbadia San Salvatore, October 2008. Local cooks compete to create the finest Tuscan dishes at this Autumn Festival, held in the main square of the medieval town of Abbadia San Salvatore. Lucky visitors can taste the local mushroom and chestnut delicacies.

The festival held over two consecutive days, also features popular dances and live music, arts and crafts exhibitions, antique stalls and street games.

This traditional festival is open all two days with free entrance.

Abbadia San Salvatore

Abbadia San Salvatore is a town and commune of Siena province, it has 6.816 inhabitants. This is the most populated town on the Amiata Mountain; it takes its name from the famous Abbey founded by Erfo, the noble Lombard in the year 743.

Surrounded by green vegetation, it rises up on the eastern side of Mount Amiata on an upland plain confining with the volcanic rocks of the mountain. Abbadia, outside its historical centre, is a modern town with wide tree lined avenues, residential areas, parks and gardens, which accommodate recreational and sports facilities, in short, oases for those seeking peace and quiet as well as enjoyment and entertainment.

A little further up from the town, there are the mines (for the extraction of cinnabar) which had a significant influence on the economy, culture and recent history of the area. Following their closure the tunnels still mark the landscape. The whole area will soon become a park-museum of the mines with exhibition areas and a centre for rural and cultural documentation and itineraries.

The Abbadia San Salvatore is situated 67km west of Siena in Siena province and can be reached by car by taking the strada statale.

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• Comune Abbadia San Salvatore