San Quirico d'Orcia - Santi Quirico e Giulitta

A church with a baptismal font (= pieve) existed here within the 8th century, when the area was ruled by Liutprand, King of the Lombards.

The (Latin Cross) church of today was erected in the 12th and 13th century. An inscription one of the portal to the right reads ".. MCCLXXXXVIII..", what 1298. Santi Quirico e Giulitta was a parish church upto 1648, when it became collegiate church.

To give room for the new choir stalls the Romanesque semicircular apse got replaced by a large rectangular one. The church has three portals, two of them can be seen from here.