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Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore Asciano
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Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore
Monte Oliveto Maggiore - Chiusure 53041 ASCIANO
Telephone 0577 707611
Website: http://www.monteolivetomaggiore.it/
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Founded in at the beginning of the XIV century from the blessed Bernardo Tolomei, in the place where he retired in hermitage previously, the imposing Benedictine-mass is situated in the southern area of the commune of Asciano, a green oasis at the edge of the “ Accona’s desert”, that is a place characterized by rough and steep calanques. The church, till today to visit, was built in the XV century together with the adjacent cloister, where catches the eye, because of its undoubted beauty and its excellent state of preservation, the cycle of Renaissance frescos, which represent Saint Benedict’ life, a work of Luca Signorelli and Antonio Bazzi da Vercelli, known as “Sodoma”. Of great interest is also the bibliographic collection, kept in the library of the attached monastery.
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Watchtower at the entrance to Monte Oliveto Maggiore
Cathedral of the Nativity of Mary
Main cloister with frescoes on the life of San Benedetto
Abbey Museum, in the chapter house of the Archicenobio
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