Only the perimeter walls of the church remaining as testimony to this important monastery
The site of Jesus’ baptism at “Bethany beyond the Jordan”, archaeological site and World Heritage Site
Famous abbey where St. Benedict is buried and which was the scene of a terrible battle in World War II.
A church that houses valuable treasures, including some frescoes rescued from the nearby Rupestrian Church
This castle is the birthplace of one of the greatest Doctors of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas.
The hermitage includes a church with a small apse and is adorned with valuable 11th-12th century Byzantine and Benedictine style frescoes
A millenary hermitage carved into the rock where you can still see the hydraulic system and the monks’ living quarters.
Cistercian Abbey of San Domenico di Sora Massimo Salesi - Shutterstock
An abbey founded in the first half of the 11th century on the ruins of the birthplace of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Outstanding Italian Cistercian monastery of the early thirteenth century, on the Way of St. Benedict and the Via Francigena del Sud.