Religious Heritage
Time to get Zen in Teramo’s Cathedral
Teramo's Cathedral Santa Maria Assunta & San Bernardo, it’s positively Zen-like compared to some of the fleshier marble clad church interiors & worth a visit
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Ancestry, History & Culture
Life in Abruzzo
Religious Heritage
Abruzzo’s isolated and silent hilltop churches, cathedrals and monasteries share a common heritage of Benedictine Monks developing both their internal & external decorative arts throughout the Romanesque Period.
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Romancing the Stone[work] – at Abbey San Giovanni in Venere
Abruzzo provides an abundance of magnificent scenery, but one of the best for sunsets has to be Fossacesia’s San Giovanni in Venere Abbey in Chieti
San Giustino Cathedral, Chieti
Located in the heart of the city of Chieti stands the Cathedral of San Giustino, one of the most important religious buildings of Abruzzo
A Touch of 15th Century Cubism in Tossicia
Tossicia’s tiny antique church of S.Antonio Abate (St Anthony Abbot) may be small but it is like stumbling upon a chest of hidden treasure when you visit
Time to get Zen in Teramo’s Cathedral
Romancing the Stone[work] – at Abbey San Giovanni in Venere
San Giustino Cathedral, Chieti