San Qurico, Etruscan origins is that, even in the absence of systematic excavations are found by the witness in the areas of Vignoni and Ripa d'Orcia, urns and other items belonging to the funeral industry, today colnservate in the Archaeological Museum of Siena . The first time you explicit mention of San Quirico, it is about a dispute between the 712 dioceses of Siena and Arezzo for possession of certain parishes, including that of San Quirico in Osenna. The name "Osenna" kept up to the seventeenth century, in all likelihood referring to a Corsican water disappeared today which was found nearby the village. "Osenna" Etruscan name and perhaps preromano. A century From the increasingly frequent encounters is the name of San Quirico in Osenna in documents which testify to the growing importance of the village, located on Francigena or Romea that, in different eras, saw the passage of important figures of world political and European ecclesiastical. In 1154 descents in Italy Frederick I directed you to Rome to receive the imperial crown. The Pope Adrian IV expectations that Frederick I približevale Viterbo and the meeting sent three cardinals. The regional army was encamped in San Quirico and it was here that made pontifical were accepted by the future emperor. In 1180 the Siena extended their jurisdiction over San Quirico and shortly after became San Quirico seat of the Imperial Vicar. In 1205 in San Quirico was held the Tuscan diet league to find an understanding among the various cities, some action to be taken against Montepulciano, which would not be subject to the domain of Siena. The diet ended with no agreement and were in fact paves the way for the conflict that few years after it broke out between Siena and Montepulciano. In 1552 San Quirico assistè powerless to passage of the troops of Charles V, led by Don Garzia, which made the country the centre for control and taglieggiare Val d'Orcia. Fall of the Republic Siena, San Quirico passed into the hands of the Marquis of Marignano and then under the dominion of Cosimo de 'Medici. Built in feud with the title of the Grand Duke Cosimo marquisate III was granted in 1677, the cardinal Flavio Chigi, nephew of Pope Alexander VII.

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