San Michele a Quarto Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of San Michele a Quarto | |
|---|---|
 Entrance area of the Badia a Quarto |
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| location |
 ItalyRegion Tuscany Province Siena |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 20 ′ 40 " N , 11 ° 17 ′ 15" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
705 |
| Patronage | St. Michael |
| founding year | 1337 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
before 1497 |
| Mother monastery | San Galgano Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Monastery of San Michele a Quarto (usually called Badia a Quarto) was a Cistercian monk abbey in Tuscany , Italy . It was four miles from Siena (hence the name a Quarto) in San Dalmazio on the road to Florence in what is now the province of Siena . The building is now in Tognazza (Località San Dalmazio , 340 m, approx. 320 inhabitants), a district of the municipality of Monteriggioni .
history
The monastery, about which there is hardly any information, was founded in 1337 (and thus as the penultimate high medieval Cistercian monastery in today's Italy) by Cardinal Riccardo de Petronibus and subordinated to the Abbey of San Galgano . So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Although the monastery was well equipped when it was founded, the coming of it quickly led to its decline. The monastery is said to have died before 1497. Under Pope Pius V (Pope from 1566 to 1572) the land came to the Jesuits , who used it as an estate until the 18th century.
Plant and buildings
The photos show a very impressive facility.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini, Le abazie cistercensi d'Italia , o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, p. 178.
- Emanuele Repetti: BADIA A QUARTO (S. Michele). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Emanuele Repetti: BADIA A QUARTO (S. Michele).
- ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on August 5, 2014 (Italian)