About 20 miles southwest of the town of Siena in the magical land of Tuscany lies a town called Chiusdino, where a true tale of a knight and his sword in the stone is strikingly similar to the Arthurian tale of King Arthur. A valiant knight born in 1148 by the name of Galgano Guidotti renounced his life as a knight and became a hermit and saint.

According to legend, after Guidotti received a vision from Archangel Gabriel at the age of 20 to build a chapel at Montesiepi and spend his last days there, his horse would not take any orders from him the next day so he ended up going to the Montesiepi mountain top. To renounce his current life of fighting as a knight, he struck his sword into a stone up until the hilt or handle.