Abbazie, monasteri, eremi e santuari isolati d'Italia ed Europa: luoghi dove il silenzio vale quanto la pietra e la spiritualità si respira ancora.
A village of a few hundred souls tucked beneath limestone cliffs, an abbey that founded Cluny, and a waterfall that only flows after rain.
Aug 3, 2026
In 1223 Francis of Assisi invented the living nativity scene here. Every December the cliff-side sanctuary of Greccio does it again, in the exact spot where it first happened.
Jul 9, 2026
The Tuscan stretch of the Via di Francesco crosses the Casentino and the Valdambra for 150 km, past Camaldolese abbeys, medieval villages and deserted Sienese hills.
Jul 9, 2026
The Sacro Monte of Varallo, the first and most monumental in Italy, tells the life of Christ in 44 chapels with 800 life-size statues: a theatre of faith in the forest.
Jul 9, 2026
A 12th-century Cistercian abbey set amid the Piedmont rice fields, Staffarda is one of Italy's best-preserved monastic complexes — and rarely visited.
Jul 9, 2026
430 km from Padua to Monte della Verna following the footsteps of Saint Anthony of Padua, through the Euganean Hills, the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and beech forests.
Jul 9, 2026
At 1,159 metres in the Biella Alps, the Sanctuary of Oropa is one of the largest Baroque complexes in Italy and a place of genuine peace among the mountains.
Jul 9, 2026
At the foot of the Rugova Gorge, Peja/Peć hides the medieval Serbian Patriarchate — four churches in one, frescoed since the 14th century — a twenty-minute walk from the centre.
Jul 9, 2026
At 600 metres on Monte Subasio, this hamlet of Spello counts about fifty souls, a medieval castle, and a Roman path that descends through the olive groves to the city of flowers.
Jul 9, 2026