Showing posts with label Abbey. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Dear Abbey ...

Three unique and lovely Abbeys in this area of Umbria that you can visit and appreciate in one day.

Abbazia San Pietro in Valle: Medieval abbey built high in the mountains.  The Benedictine Abbey of San Pietro is among the main examples of high-medieval art in central Italy.  Once destroyed, the abbey was restored and expanded in the twelfth century.  At the top of the side walls there are a cycle frescoes from the twelfth century, with stories from the Old and New Testaments.



Abbazia di San Felice: The church rebuild in 1190, is an example of Romanesque Spoleto architecture and has a small annexed monastery that dates from he 15th & 16th centuries..  Only fragments of the frescoes remain on the walls.




 Abbazia di Sassovivo:  A Benedictine monastery built around the year 1000.  the finest architectural feature of the entire abbey is the cloister, was completed in 1229.