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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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