Religious Places

There are various legends about St. Romedius, and the best known is surely the one about a bear. The story goes that the now elderly hermit Romedius w… Read the rest

Its very simple facade still retains the characters of the original architecture. The door on the main facade is no longer used as an entrance, but or… Read the rest

The chapel has a very simple architectural structure: it is a single nave covered by a barrel vault, with a small apse covered by a cross vault. The i… Read the rest

Construction began in 1386 at the behest of Archbishop Antonio da Saluzzo and Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then lord of the city. It rose in the area prev… Read the rest

The abbey of Mont Saint Michelè situated on the top of a small rocky island near the northern coast of France. The islet has a diameter of about 960 m… Read the rest

The Benedictine monks of Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto, also called Olivetans, were founded in 1319 by the Sienese Saint Bernard Tolomei (1272 –… Read the rest

The Abbey of Farfa is one of the most distinguished monuments of the European Middle Ages; it had the patronage of Charlemagne and owned, in its heyda… Read the rest

It stands on a semicircular, impervious flight of steps, in a square plaza with the streets intersecting at the place once marked by the column with t… Read the rest

The hermitage of Santa Caterina del Sasso was built on a rock overlooking the lake, far from the mainland and connected to it only by a very long, ste… Read the rest

The Upper Church During the century of the plague, exactly in 1605, a group of nobles gave life to an Opera Pia, a lay congregation whose main pu… Read the rest