Once upon a time, in medieval England, there was a story which told that the one who would have managed to extract the legendary Excalibur would have become king. Actually, someone tried. And we’re not talking about King Arthur, but a normal tourist who, visiting the Hermitage of Montesiepi in Tuscany, attempted the arduous feat (without success and damaging the hilt, by the way).

Well, yes, the Sword in the Rock is not a myth, a legend or a folktale, it does really exist and you can found it in Tuscany, in the province of Siena. The story features Galgano Guidotti, a knight born in Chiusdino in about 1150, whose aristocratic family was linked to the Bishop of Volterra, on whose behalf Guidotti was aimed at defending and protecting interests, possessions and assets of the Chiusdinese district.