San Pietro alla Magione is an ancient church on Via Camollia in

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, Italy. Documents attest to a church at the site since 998, when Counts Bernardo and Gualfredo Ranieri, along with their cousin Guilla, donated property to the church.Province de Sienne website, profile page
/ref> In the 12th century, the Knights Templar set up a hospice at a house ('Magione') beside the church. In 1312, the church passed to the Order of the Hospitallers (later the Order of Malta). The church is built in stone, and preceded by a stairs and a Romanesque bell portal. The austere interior was restored in 1957 and contains a Gothic tabernacle from the second half of the 14th century, a ''Madonna with Saints John the Baptist and Peter'' by

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, fragments of frescoes (''Cruxifixion'' and ''Biblical Stories'') by

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and

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. The chapel on the right was erected in 1523-26 as an ex voto for the passing of the plague; it houses a ''Martyrdom of St Donnino'' by

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, a fragment of a ''Madonna with Child'' attributed to

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Rete Toscana Luoghi della Fede
entry on church. Pietro alla Magione 10th-century churches in Italy {{Tuscany-RC-church-stub