Priverno
A Cistercian abbey in the plain, and the Roman town it was built out of.
7 things to bookthe nearest is a 1 h 31 drive from Rome
Fossanova is the first Gothic building in Italy — French Cistercians put it up when the style had barely crossed the Alps, and Thomas Aquinas died in the guest range. The church is deliberately bare, which is the whole argument the order was making.
Up the hill, Privernum was a Roman town and its mosaics and street plan are still being excavated; the museum in the town holds what has come out of it.
Best fit for this section first, then whatever you can book today. Closest to Rome breaks a tie. Never by who pays us.
With your handsHands-on mathematics museum in Priverno, part of the PrivernoMUSEI system, where the exhibition route lets visitors handle and operate the machines and models behind abstract ma…
See the dayBest fit for this section first, then whatever you can book today. Closest to Rome breaks a tie. Never by who pays us.
On the trailThe Cistercian abbey where Thomas Aquinas died in 1274, with its Gothic church and cloister.
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On the trailA waymarked long-distance route through the Volscian hill towns - Fossanova, Priverno, Roccagorga, Maenza, Prossedi, Giuliano di Roma, Villa Santo Stefano, Castro dei Volsci, Va…
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On the trailGuided visit of the Cistercian abbey: the church, the cloister with its paired columns, the cell where Thomas Aquinas died in 1274, and the small village that grew around the mo…
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On the trailMuseum in the historic Palazzo Antonelli on the main square of Priverno, with over a thousand objects from the Roman colony of Privernum: mosaics, statues, portraits, inscriptio…
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On the trailMuseum in the abbey village of Fossanova, part of the PrivernoMUSEI system, with medieval architectural sculpture: pillars, capitals and architraves from the Cistercian complex.
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On the trailOpen-air archaeological park on the plain of the Amaseno, on the site of the Roman colony of Privernum: city walls, domus and the urban fabric of a town that stayed alive in the…
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