Pomposa Abbey was built around the 7th century along the Romea road, between Venice and Ravenna.
It reached its maximum economic, cultural and spiritual expansion in the 11th century, to which the church atrium, with its simple architecture decorated with terracotta bands and circular barriers, and the bell tower (1063) belong.
The Abbey then experienced inexorable decline, until the abandonment of the monks in the seventeenth century, but the fourteenth century shows evidence of great quality: the frescoes of the Church, begun in 1351 by Vitale da Bologna, those in the Chapter House (by 1310) and those in the Refectory, ascribed to Pietro da Rimini (c. 1320).
The history of the Abbey is summarized in the Museum, a very interesting collection of finds and art objects from the 6th to the 19th century.
