Our last visit to Montalcino and Sant’Antimo was in April 2000. At that time we took the bus from Siena to Montalcino and then walked the final 10 kilometers to the Abbey. We returned again this year the day after our visit to Volterra and San Gimignano, and seventeen years later the journey and destination were as memorable as ever.
In March 2016 I posted Tuscan Reverie for the Daily Post’s inaugural Discover Challenge: Blogging the Senses in which I included a video of photos taken from our walk to Sant’Antimo in 2000. I thought I would re-post the video today so that you can enjoy once again the Gregorian chant “Haec Dies” from “Mysterium” a recording made in the Abbey in April 1995 by the five fathers of the Communita die Canonici Regolari di Sant’Antimo.
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The serene delivery, calmly measured tenor and meditational melody of Gregorian Chant is surely one of the enduring delights of life. Sitting here with my eyes fixed on your beauteous images, the warmth of the day, the spectacular and unmistakably Italian landscape and that marvelous gem of ecclesiastical architecture beckoning has been a welcome and soothing moment in the day for which I thank you. I remember the same the first time I watched this in March. Some things are too good to enjoy just once ….
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Thanks so much Osyth. It was worth reposting just for the pleasure of reading your lovely comment 🙂
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How wonderful. What a special place.
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Thanks Miriam. Hopefully you will go one day. 🙂
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I’ve been! My parents were from Italy, the north (Veneto) region. 🙂
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That’s wonderful. So you really do know how special it is. 😊
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I absolutely do. I went for the first time with my parents when I was 14, then I returned twice after then on my own. 💖
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How lovely to know we shared the same experience and feelings.
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Absolutely! Nice isn’t it. 💕
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So beautiful, we were there nine years ago and it seems like yesterday.
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Thanks Chris. It’s such a special place. Hope all is well. xo
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these hills, I love them – there is a sculptural quality combined with antiquity here that draws me. thank you for sharing. cheers, Debi
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Thanks Debi. I love sharing images of the beautiful Tuscan landscape. More to come 🙂
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yay!! look forward to your images Andrew.
ah, it would be grand 🙂 to have a summer villa there….
smiling!
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We had one for a week and it was magic 🙂
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lovely 🙂
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