San Miniato
One of the most beautiful churches in Italy the finest Romanesque structure in Tuscany, the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte (Basilica of St Minias on the Mountain) stands atop one of the highest points in Florence. St Minias arrived in Florence around 240 and became Florence's first martyr. He was beheaded during the anti-Christian persecutions and is believed to have picked up his head, crossed the Arno and walked up the hill of Mons Fiorentinus to his hermitage, where he died. Olivetan monks now run the church and make famous liquors and honey, which they sell from a shop next to the church.
