Pienza, Church of Vitaleta and Pieve of Corsignano on foot
trekking with environmental guide
10 km long, circular route
300 m of altitude difference
medium difficulty
The trekking routes have a variable price based on the number of people and any additional services requested.
VALENTINA
Art historian and environmental guide. Her studies, focused above all on the medieval period, found inspiration precisely in the Val d’Orcia area, a place where the hills worked by man, the rows of cypresses, the medieval bell towers closely recall the splendid visions of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Duccio di Boninsegna, the three “greats” of Tuscan pictorial art.
Departure from Pienza, we will follow the path that will lead us through the wheat and oat fields. We will begin from here the journey that will lead us to discover fantastic landscapes characterized by plots of cultivated fields and rolling hills on the tops of which stand marvelous farmhouses with poetic names, a legacy of a time that has now disappeared and which has now returned to a new life in the form of farmhouses or private homes. We will cross a stretch of road right near Pienza which has become famous thanks to the scene among the ears of wheat from the movie “Gladiator”. We will continue our journey which, winding along a very suggestive dirt road, will lead us to the Church of Vitaleta, formerly the municipality of San Quirico d’Orcia.
This small chapel, framed between two rows of cypresses, although small and lost among the fields of Val d’Orcia, has become iconic in recent years and one of the favorite destinations for visitors from all over the world. The small church was built on the extension of an older tabernacle. For many years it was a place of adoration of the simulacrum of the Virgin of Consolation, until, in 1553, a famous statue of the Virgin attributable to Andrea della Robbia was inserted inside it. The ring will finally end at the Pieve of Corsignano, the ancient name of the city of Pienza. We will visit the splendid Romanesque parish church full of religious and pagan suggestions and symbols, typical of the art of that period. We will enter a mystical and at times mysterious world of which our territory is rich, thanks to the presence of numerous parish churches and chapels of medieval origin scattered almost everywhere.
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