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La Certosa di Padula

There are no words to describe the beauty National Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano .
Last weekend I visited the Certosa di Padula .
Despite being a place beyond all imagination, a breathtaking splendor, there is neither a website nor a small guide that is delivered visitors at the time of admission.
Red Guide From the Italian Touring Club on Campania
La Certosa di San Lorenzo, one of the most magnificent monuments in southern Italy, covering an area of \u200b\u200b51,500 m², including the cloisters, the courtyard and the garden was built because of Thomas Sanseverino, count of Marsico in 1306, but construction continued until the early decades of the nineteenth century. The main aspect of the various parts of the building is baroque. The impression one gets from visiting the imposing complex is really great and very impressive.
The monastery was very rich and gave generous hospitality to pilgrims and to strangers. In 1535 there was a guest in the triumphant journey from Reggio to Naples, after the firm's Tunis, Charles V, who dined there: according to tradition, the monks prepared for him and follow a pancake than a thousand eggs.

The monastery was suppressed by the French government, which stayed there 20 thousand soldiers, with the return of the Bourbons returned to the Carthusian monks also, to the suppression of 1866. During the 1915-18 war and from 1940 to 1944 the monastery was converted into a concentration camp.


The Great Cloister, vast rectangle of 15000m ², with two rows of arcades on 84 arches, of 1690.
along the porch opened the districts of the Carthusians, consisting each with 3-4 rooms, the alcove, on a porch, a covered terrace and a garden with a fountain. Next to the entrance of the neighborhood is the window for which you passed food and a hole from which they handed out the light. Inside the Church of the Charterhouse
is decorated with bas-reliefs depicting scenes from the life of San Lorenzo.

The internal structure of the Church from Gothic architecture, with vaulted ceilings, is decorated in the Baroque era.




In the north-west, in an octagonal tower, is the large and elegant elliptical staircase, built in 1761-63 by Gary Beard, who with two ramps leading to the upstairs, where a tunnel running on top of the cloister walk and which served as the monks.



For more information about Padula, its history and what to visit, Nicholas Cestaro indicates www.padula.info