On the trailThe Cistercian abbey of Casamari
A visit to a Cistercian abbey at Veroli.
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Veroli
A day out in Veroli
A hill town of the Ernici, with a Cistercian abbey below and a library nobody expects.
Veroli
A hill town of the Ernici, with a Cistercian abbey below and a library nobody expects.
6 things to bookthe nearest is a 1 h 20 drive from Rome
Veroli is walled, steep and older than it looks — the cyclopean stonework at the base of the walls is pre-Roman. The chapter library still has its original walnut shelving and the books are where the eighteenth century left them.
Casamari, down in the valley, is the other great Cistercian abbey of Lazio after Fossanova, and the monks still live in it.
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On the trailA visit to a Cistercian abbey at Veroli.
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On the trailA working eighteenth-century library, given to Veroli in 1773 by Monsignor Vittorio Giovardi: about 16,000 volumes, ten illuminated parchment manuscripts from the twelfth to the…
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On the trailThe civic collection in the Palazzo Municipale, whose original core goes back to the first half of the twelfth century: ex-votos of the fourth and third centuries BC from Antera…
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On the trailA permanent display of early twentieth-century Ciociaria domestic life, set up in the Sala degli Armigeri of the old palace and curated by Marisa Igliozzi: the wrought-iron bed …
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On the trailA material museum of the agro-pastoral world and of the trades that were practised in the workshops of the town, built from material collected over about twenty years across the…
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On the trailSamples of native herbs of the Ernici mountains, each identified by family, genus and species under the Linnaean system, alongside a permanent display of old instruments and med…
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