San Giusto Monastery in Tuscania

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Cistercian Abbey of San Giusto in Tuscania
Photo by Paolo Monti, 1970
Photo by Paolo Monti , 1970
location Italy
Region of Lazio
Province of Viterbo
Coordinates: 42 ° 23 '9 "  N , 11 ° 52' 29"  E Coordinates: 42 ° 23 '9 "  N , 11 ° 52' 29"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		220
founding year 1146
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		before 1373
Mother monastery Fontevivo Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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San Giusto Monastery in Tuscania is a former Cistercian monk abbey in what is now Lazio , Italy . It is located around 3 km south of Tuscania in the province of Viterbo on the slope on the right bank of the Marta River .

history

The Benedictine monastery, already mentioned in 967, was taken over in 1146 by Cistercians who had come from the Fontevivo monastery. It thus belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Judging by its size, the monastery may not have housed more than 20 monks. Due to the poor economic situation, it was attached to the Tre Fontane monastery in 1255 . It is no longer mentioned in 1373. His goods went to the Bishop of Tuscania. In 1870 they were taken over by the Italian state. In the 1950s the monastery was still being used as a cattle and sheep shed. It has been reconstructed since 1996.

  • The facility was photographed by Paolo Monti in 1970 before restoration.

  • Outside

  • Inside

Plant and buildings

The Cistercians retained the previous Romanesque construction, but added two small semicircular side apses to the transept, one of which has collapsed, in the church with a crypt , a single-nave basilica in the form of a Latin cross . The vaults of the church and the bell tower have also collapsed. The tower was rebuilt after 1996.

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Le abazie cisterciensi d'Italia. o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 45–46, with photo of the monastery ruins

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