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FONTE AVELLANA MONASTERY

The Monastery of Fonte Avellana is located on the wooded slopes of Mount Catria, 700 meters above sea level. Its origins lie at the end of the tenth century, around 980, when some hermits, influenced by San Romualdo di Ravenna father of the Camaldolese Benedictine congregation, chose to build the first cells of a hermitage that over the centuries will become the current monastery.

Fonte Avellana becomes Abbey in 1325, with a a socio-economic power but, shortly thereafter, in 1392, he experienced the practice of commendas, the entrusting of the property owned by a monastery to strangers, mostly of high rank ecclesiastical or civil, which contributed greatly to the moral decay, as well as material, of many monastic centers.

A constant and very ancient tradition has it that, in 1318, the "Sommo Poeta" Dante Alighieri was a guest of this monastery which he sang in the Divine Comedy.:

«Tra due liti d’Italia surgon sassi,
e non molto distanti a la tua patria,
tanto che i troni assai suonan più bassi,
e fanno un gibbo che si chiama Catria,
di sotto al quale è consecrato un ermo,
che suole esser disposto a sola latria».
(Par. – XXI, 106)

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