The Pavia Charterhouse is a monument of unique splendor immersed in the countryside between Milan and Pavia. The Charterhouse becomes even more fascinating if you try to imagine it back in the centuries, until 1396 when Giangaleazzo Visconti posed the first stone of the Monument.
The building is cared in every detail showing amazing frescoes, sculptures and magnificent carvings in the wood. All this care and details reveal the almost maniacal love that the friars gave to the Charterhouse. It is from the Carthusian friars and their care for the details that the saying “Carthusian work” was born.
Today the monks who run the Pavia Charterhouse are the Cistercian who guide the tourists through the Charterhouse and preparing herbs infusions that the visitors can buy in their shop.
As you cross the Charterhouse, such beauty will amaze you. Impressive is the friars’ courtyard with the cells where the Carthusian monks spent their nights in retreat in loneliness and praying.
It almost sounds like a story of other times.
For information on timetables and visits, please visit Charterhouse official website, unfortunately written only in Italian.
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