Abbazie e monasteri

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Staffarda Abbey: 12th-Century Romanesque Amid Rice Fields

Abbeys, hermitages and sanctuaries

Staffarda Abbey: 12th-Century Romanesque Amid Rice Fields

A 12th-century Cistercian abbey set amid the Piedmont rice fields, Staffarda is one of Italy's best-preserved monastic complexes — and rarely visited.

Ferentillo: The Mummies in the Crypt and the Lombard Abbey in the Gorge

Italian villages

Ferentillo: The Mummies in the Crypt and the Lombard Abbey in the Gorge

In a village split in two by the Nera river, thirty-five naturally preserved mummies rest in the crypt of Santo Stefano, while a few steps away stands one of Italy's finest Lombard abbeys.

Tremiti Islands: San Nicola, the Medieval Abbey and the Adriatic You Never Expected (Tremiti Islands, Puglia)

Tremiti Islands, Puglia

Tremiti Islands: San Nicola, the Medieval Abbey and the Adriatic You Never Expected

A guide to the Tremiti, Puglia's archipelago: San Nicola's medieval abbey, Capraia's seabeds, Cala delle Arene and ferries from the Gargano.

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, the Hérault Gorges and the Abbey of Gellone (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France)

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, the Hérault Gorges and the Abbey of Gellone

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert hides in the Hérault gorges: a Benedictine abbey, turquoise waters and a stage on the Way of Saint James.

Lagrasse, the Abbey Among the Corbières Vineyards (Lagrasse, France)

Lagrasse, France

Lagrasse, the Abbey Among the Corbières Vineyards

Lagrasse is a medieval borgo in the Corbières with a Carolingian abbey, a humpback bridge and bold red wines waiting to be discovered.

Bobbio: the Devil's Bridge and the Abbey That Saved European Culture (Bobbio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)

Bobbio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Italian villages

Bobbio: the Devil's Bridge and the Abbey That Saved European Culture

Bobbio enchants with the humpback Ponte Gobbo, the abbey of San Colombano and the genuine flavours of the Val Trebbia.

Follina, where a Cistercian abbey meets the Prosecco hills (Follina, Veneto, Italy)

Follina, Veneto, Italy

Castles, palaces and monuments

Follina, where a Cistercian abbey meets the Prosecco hills

Follina, a jewel of the Trevisan hills: a twelfth-century Cistercian abbey, historic woollen mills and the silence of the UNESCO Prosecco hills.

The Abbey of Goleto, ruins on a hill above the Ofanto Valley (Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Campania, Italy)

Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Campania, Italy

Abbeys, hermitages and sanctuaries

The Abbey of Goleto, ruins on a hill above the Ofanto Valley

Among the hills of Irpinia, the Abbey of Goleto: Romanesque towers, Roman stones and a roofless church tell the story of eight centuries.

Gio-ji, the hidden moss convent north of Arashiyama (Kyoto) (Okusaga (Sagano), Kyoto, Japan)

Okusaga (Sagano), Kyoto, Japan

Gio-ji, the hidden moss convent north of Arashiyama (Kyoto)

Gio-ji in Sagano (Kyoto): a tiny convent with a carpet of moss beneath the maples, tied to the dancer Gio. Twenty minutes from Arashiyama.

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