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The town is named after the Abbey of the same name, founded in 743, which today remains the only church and the crypt.

The history has given this town temporal stages of prestige where the Monastery has had a major power in large territories on the eastern and western dell'Amiata, and often very violently clashing with the powerful family the Aldobrandeschi, both with the Orsini and generally with the allies of the emperors, especially when these conflicting reports maintained with the papacy in Rome.

Abbadia San Salvatore, today one of the most important towns of Mount Amiata, recalls the now elapsed time of the production of mercury coming from its mineral base. Today mercury, which is no longer produced by more than fifty years, is a memory preserved in a interesting museum in a town.

Attractions in the town include the medieval commune, built in the fifteenth century and the church of Santa Croce.

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