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San Benedetto Complex
The San Benedetto complex is a Benedictine monastic foundation in Fabriano, a town in the Apennine foothills of…
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Peru
Santa Catalina Monastery: a walled city within a city, painted blue and closed to the world for nearly 400 years
Ad Arequipa, in Perù, il Monastero di Santa Caterina da Siena fu fondato da doña María de Guzmán,…
Veneto
Santa Chiara — the Convent Venice Cut Away, and the Wall That Stayed
A Franciscan monastery founded in 1236, suppressed in 1806 and cut away by Piazzale Roma and the Rio…
Spain
Santes Creus Monastery (1158): a king’s mummified body, found in 2010, still lying in a Roman porphyry bathtub
Fondato nel 1158, Santes Creus è uno dei tre monasteri del "triangolo cistercense" catalano, insieme a Poblet e…
Spain
Santo Toribio de Liébana (6th c.): the largest fragment of the True Cross, in one of Christianity’s five holy places
Nel VI secolo, il vescovo Turibio di Astorga portò dalla chiesa del Santo Sepolcro di Gerusalemme un frammento…
Greece
Simonopetra (1257): hanging from a cliff 330 metres above the sea, after a falling worker reappeared unharmed
San Simone il Mirobliti viveva da eremita in una grotta vicina quando, secondo la tradizione, ebbe una visione…
Romania
Snagov Monastery: Dracula’s traditional tomb, opened in 1933 and found empty of a body
Il monastero di Snagov, su un'isola nel lago omonimo a nord di Bucarest, è documentato per la prima…
Ukraine
St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery: dynamited by Soviet authorities in 1937, rebuilt stone by stone from old photographs
A Kyiv, il Monastero di San Michele dalle Cupole d'Oro fu fondato dal principe Sviatopolk II Iziaslavich, con…
Greece
Stavronikita Monastery: the smallest monastery on Mount Athos, and the last to rise from its own ruins
Sul Monte Athos, in Grecia, un monastero chiamato Stavronikita è documentato già in fonti dell'anno 1012 e 1016,…
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