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Certosa di Milano

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Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
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Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
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Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
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Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Certosa di Milano
Phone:
+39 02 3349 8546

Address:
Via Garegnano, 28, 20156 Milano MI, Italy

The Certosa di Pavia is a monastery and complex in Lombardy, northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia, 8 km north of Pavia. Built in 1396-1495, it was once located on the border of a large hunting park belonging to the Visconti family of Milan, of which today only scattered parts remain. It is one of the largest monasteries in Italy. Certosa is the Italian name for a house of the cloistered monastic order of Carthusians founded by St. Bruno in 1044 at Grande Chartreuse. Though the Carthusians in their early centuries were known for their seclusion and asceticism and the plainness of their architecture, the Certosa is renowned for the exuberance of its architecture, in both the Gothic and Renaissance styles, and for its collection of artworks which are particularly representative of the region.
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