The Certosa di Pavia includes a monastery and a shrine. It is located in the municipality of Certosa di Pavia, resort located about eight kilometers from Pavia. Built by order of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, at the end of the fourteenth century, and completed two centuries later, originally entrusted to the Carthusian community, then the Cistercian and, for a short time, even that of the Benedictines, after the unification of Kingdom of Italy, the Certosa was declared a national monument in 1866 from 1968 is home to a small community Cistercian monastic. Photo of one of the cloisters of the sanctuary. In the lower part can be seen, although in shadow, clear the columns of the portico, while the top outside of the sanctuary.
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