How to reach
San Bruzio is located in the countryside of Magliano in Toscana. It is easily reached by following, from the north, the roads SS1 Aurelia to the junction with the SP81, then the SS323, and almost as soon as you reach the village on the right, take the Sant'Andrea provincial road. The Canonica is on the left after about one kilometre (parking on the opposite side of the road).
History
Near the Etruscan sepulchral area sited outside the town of Magliano in Toscana, surrounded by olive groves, rise the remains of the Romanic church of S.Tiburzio, better known by the popular name of S.Bruzio. This religious settlement was an important presbytery, remembered since the 13th–14th centuries. Between its walls were offered hospitality by the old priests of the local diocese; they started a common life, like a kind of monastery. Today, the rest of the presbiterial part survives, with the central apse, two wings of the transept, and the octagonal foundation of the Dome (Cupola) that reaches out towards the sky in the grafting point with the unique big central nave.
Of the Dome and the nave, there are no traces. The external sides of the church, in particular the outside sweep of the abside, were finely worked and endowed with slender semi-columns waking up with hanging arcades. The architecture of S.Bruzio remembers closely the Lombard style of northern Italy, but in some particulars — the decorations of the abside, the column capitals and the lightness of its global form — we can see the development of a primordial Gothic style. In the scarces rests we can still admire many sculptures and other fine carved furnishings.