If it can be done, the monastery should be so established that all the necessary things, such as water, mill, garden and various workshops, may be within the enclosure, so that there is no necessity for the sisters to go about outside of it, since that is not at all profitable for their souls. (RB 66,6)

   ABBEY TOUR
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The abbey complex is the result of a great work of reconstruction carried out between the second half of the XV and the first half of the XVI century.

The only visible part of the original medieval building remain the basement of the tower bell.

The vastness of the building, the harmonic rationality and equilibrium of the four cloisters articulating the space, the architectonic style in which the late gothic and the incipient renaissance styles are happily integrated, makes the abbey of praglia a remarkable monument of art. But it is also and first of all - house of God -, eloquent theological space of a life's wisdom condensed in the same architectonic shapes and that still today it constitutes primary the vital context for a community of men who share the search of God in the path traced by the rule of Saint Benedict.

From the visit to the monument we are therefore guides you to the discovery of the abbey...



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Praglia Abbey - Via Abbazia di Praglia, 16 - 35037 Teolo (PD)