Best places: Monasteries in Italy

Monumental sanctuary dedicated to St. Francis in a verdant cliffside setting with sweeping views.

👍👍 Nice peaceful place to walk around and investigate. Parking lot is well marked.

Religious complex dating from the 1300s with a vast church, majolica-tiled cloisters & a museum.

Mountaintop abbey with an ornate cathedral, an elegant Renaissance cloister with views & a museum.

10th-century religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano, with Gothic & Romanesque architecture & views.

👍👍 A very beautiful ancient Monastery...A place is silence and prayer..

Working monastery with red-brick buildings, founded in 1313, housing frescoes & works of art.

🫤 Not bad, but ten times more to visit and see in all nice small towns in the surrounding. And they are for free...

Trappist monastery still in use by monks, with a Romanesque church & cloister, plus choral prayer.

Hermitage dating to the 11th century, with monks' quarters, a chapel & a guest house for retreats.

Restored Armenian Mekhitarist monastery on an island, established in 1717 & offering guided tours.

👍👍 This monastery is one of the only three monasteries with Greek Orthodox Mass rite in Italy, with more than 1,000 years of history (it was founded by the monk S. Nile in 1004). This place is a fine blend of bizantine, Baroque, medieval art dominating the breathtaking scenery of Grottaferrata, at a fe...

Centuries-old church carved from a stone cliff with a preserved fresco, altar & hermit cell.

Grand abbey, basilica & archives dating to the Middle Ages, with a museum & a small gift shop.

Grand Catholic church in the city center with ornate decor & a collection of precious artworks.

Hilltop monastery with guided tours of frescoed cloisters, monks' cells & the refectory.

Part of a 14th-century complex, this sanctuary holds a revered, storied statue of the Virgin Mary.

Stone church from the 18th century, on the site of an ancient temple overlooking the town & harbor.

👍👍 One of our best experience in Catania was the (English) guided tour of the monastery (well, university). You can not really visit without the tour, specially during the summer when the University is closed. The tour costs 9 euros and lasts a out 1h20m. If you go on Saturday (maybe Sunday as well, d...

👍👍 The San Magno monastery stands outside the town of Fondi (LT) on the foothills of Mount Arcano. Thanks to the restoration it is possible to admire valuable frescoes, but if you are lucky enough to visit it completely on your own as it happened to us, it becomes a magical place with a suggestive atm...