A short distance from Lecceto is San Leonardo a Lago Verano, the oldest of the Sienese hermitages. Half-hidden by thick underbrush, the hermitage rises near the Montagnola Senese overlooking the plain once occupied by Verano Lake and now called Pian del Lago. Because of their close vicinity, Lecceto and San Leonardo have often been mixed up with each other by historians, feeding the . . .