The Abbey of Calena rises at the foot of the town of Peschici, in the plain of the same name which is home to olive groves and plantations.
Here, a community of Benedictine monks found accommodation before the year 1000, building an egalitarian and self-sufficient social model, based on production and exchange, which increased the Abbey’s fame and influence in the ecclesiastical sphere. Once its years of splendour were over, recent history has seen this authentic artistic and cultural jewel contested between the property and associations that are calling for the structural recovery of the site, which is currently in a state of total decay.
