Fonte Avellana
The Eremo di S. Croce di Fonte Avellana is an active monastery in the central Italian province of Pesaro and the municipality of Serra Sant'Abbondio .
In 980 the hermitage was opened at the suggestion of St. Romuald founded, during the Middle Ages it grew to some importance through its scriptorium . Petrus Damiani has been a monk here since 1035 and a prior since 1043. In 1310 the poet Dante Alighieri visited the then famous library of the monastery, whose historical treasures are scattered today. In 1570 the monastery was completely transferred to the Camaldolese order , whose monks still live here today.
The oldest components include the choir and transept of a church room , which is now a crypt-like location of a younger upper church. A neoclassical choir was added to this high medieval building in the 19th or 20th century .
The tourist attraction of the complex consists less in its (heavily restored) architecture or its (low) artistic furnishings, but rather through its unique location in the mountainous forest seclusion away from all urban centers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dante, Divina Commedia, Canto 21, paradiso , v. 106–111.
literature
- Georg Kauffmann : Emilia-Romagna, Marken, Umbria (Reclams Art Guide Italy, Volume IV), Stuttgart 1971, pp. 602–603.
- Celestino Pierucci: Fonte Avellana. mille anni di storia . Fonte Avellana 1983.
Coordinates: 43 ° 28 ′ 17.1 ″ N , 12 ° 43 ′ 37 ″ E