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Ten wonderful and solitary monasteries

Using an expression inspired by the Gospel, some have described monasteries as "voices crying out in the desert" of medieval Europe, with echoes in our contemporary history.

Since the 5th century, when the curtain slowly but inexorably drew on Rome's millenary pomp, monasteries gradually turned into essential reference points on the stage where the Old Continent's religious, cultural, political and economic events would play out.

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Fonte: Italian Ways

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