Oratorio del Redentore

The Oratory of the Redeemer is located in La Sassa, at the beginning of Via Torre, near the village’s medieval tower, and is a small but highly evocative religious building constructed by Lorenzo Regoli in the seventeenth century as a family chapel. Later donated to the Chapter of Canons of the Cathedral of Volterra, it is now managed by a local lay confraternity that takes care of its preservation and celebrations.

The site is surrounded by a legend that heightens its spiritual appeal: tradition says that in the woods of Montalpruno, very close to La Sassa, there was an encounter between Saint Peter and Christ the Redeemer, and that a footprint of Christ was left on the cobblestones of a path. According to the legend, this event dates back to the earliest centuries of Christianity and still feeds local devotion and the collective memory of the village. The oratory is therefore not only a place of worship, but also a meeting point between history, spirituality and landscape, set in a natural context of rare beauty.