This collection brings together abbeys and monasteries, religious complexes with cloisters, churches, and spaces that show monastic life over the centuries. It is useful for visitors interested in historic and religious sites, or anyone curious about medieval architecture linked to spiritual life.

Places: Abbey and monastery (39)

• Abbey of San Giovanni in ArgentellaThe Abbey of San Giovanni in Argentella is at Via di San Giovanni in Argentella 94, in Palombara Sabina, and since 2020 it has been run directly by…
• Abbey of Tre FontaneAbbey of Tre Fontane - Via di Acque Salvie, 1, Rome RM
• Abbey of ValviscioloValvisciolo Abbey is at Via Badia 14, in the territory of Sermoneta, in the province of Latina, and is inhabited by a community of Cistercian monks…
• Antica Spezieria di Santa Maria alla ScalaAntica Spezieria di Santa Maria alla Scala - Piazza della Scala, 23, 00153 Roma RM
• Basilica of the Most Holy Four Crowned SaintsBasilica of the Most Holy Four Crowned Saints - Via dei SS. Quattro, 20, 00184 Roma RM
• Benedictine Monastery of Santa ScolasticaSanta Scolastica is one of the 12 monasteries founded at Subiaco by Saint Benedict of Nursia around the year 520. It is the oldest in Italy, follow…
• Casamari AbbeyCasamari Abbey is at via Maria 25, in the Casamari district of Veroli, in the province of Frosinone. Entry is free, visiting hours are 9-12 and 15-…
• Cassino (FR)Cassino (FR) -
• Certosa di TrisultiThe Certosa di Trisulti is at Via Trisulti 8, in the territory of Collepardo (FR), and today it is run by the State: the Ministry of Culture throug…
• Cittaducale (RI)Cittaducale (Cìeta in the local dialect) is a late medieval town of fewer than 7,000 inhabitants gently set on the Colle di Cerreto Piano along Via…
• Cloisters of San Cosimato in RomeThe Cloisters of San Cosimato in Rome are part of the former Convent facing Piazza San Cosimato, a few steps from Viale Trastevere, built next to t…
• Collepardo (FR)Collepardo is in Frosinone Province, in southern Lazio, at 674 meters of altitude on the slopes of the Ernici Mountains. The distance from Rome is…
• Fara in Sabina (RI)Fara in Sabina is a medieval village in the province of Rieti, in Lazio, perched at 482 meters above sea level on a ridge that looks over the Tiber…
• Farfa Abbey (RI)Farfa Abbey is at Via del Monastero 1, in Fara in Sabina, province of Rieti, at the foot of Monte Acuziano and about a hundred meters from the stre…
• Farnese (VT)Farnese is a town in Viterbo Province, postal code 01010, at 343 meters above sea level on a spur of tuff that looks west to Lake Bolsena and north…
• Fossanova AbbeyFossanova Abbey is in a hamlet of Priverno, in the province of Latina, where the Amaseno valley opens onto the eastern edge of the Pontine plain. I…
• Greccio Sanctuary (RI)Some places tell their own story and some ask to be explained. The Greccio sanctuary belongs to the second kind: if you come up here without knowin…
• Grottaferrata (RM)A small, elegant town at the gates of Rome, Grottaferrata is known for the Abbey of San Nilo and for the historic fair of medieval origin held here…
• Michelangelo’s CloisterMichelangelo's Cloister - Via Enrico de Nicola, 76, 00185 Rome RM, Italy
• Monastery of Santa Rosa in ViterboThe Sanctuary of Santa Rosa in Viterbo, with the Poor Clares' monastery that surrounds it, has been open again since August 22, 2026, the day Bisho…
• Montecassino Abbey (FR)Montecassino Abbey (FR) - Via Montecassino, 03043 Cassino FR
• Museum of the Greek Abbey of San Nilo at GrottaferrataThe Museum of the Greek Abbey of San Nilo, also known as Santa Maria di Grottaferrata and consecrated in 1024 by Pope John XIX, houses Basilian mon…
• Palombara Sabina (RM)You can wander around Palombara Sabina freely, but the two monuments that justify the trip open on tight schedules. Castello Savelli Torlonia, owne…
• Poggio Bustone Sanctuary and San Giacomo ConventThe Sanctuary of Poggio Bustone is in Poggio Bustone, in the province of Rieti, just above the town, on the flank of Monte Rosato, at the northeast…
• Priverno (LT)Priverno (LT) - Priverno (LT)
• Sacro Speco of Subiaco, Monastery of St. BenedictThe Sacro Speco is the Monastery of St. Benedict in Subiaco, and it hangs on the face of Monte Taleo at 626 meters, above the Aniene valley, held u…
• San Martino al Cimino (VT)San Martino al Cimino sits at 561 meters of elevation on the southern slope of the Cimini Mountains, in the municipality of Viterbo, from which it…
• San Salvatore Maggiore AbbeySan Salvatore Maggiore Abbey stands on the Letenano mountain plateau, in the territory of Pratoianni, a hamlet of Concerviano (RI), and has belonge…
• Sanctuary of Fonte Colombo (RI)There are places that tell their own story, with the facade, with the square in front, with the sound of footsteps on the paving. And then there ar…
• Sanctuary of Santa Maria della ForestaThere are places you understand only by arriving on foot, and the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Foresta is one of them. It stands just outside Rie…
• Sant’Anselmo and Santi Bonifacio e AlessioOn the Aventine, between the Orange Garden and Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, there are two churches that almost nobody visits and that lie less th…
• Sant’Onofrio al GianicoloSant’Onofrio al Gianicolo is a 15th-century convent complex facing the street of the same name, halfway up the slope between the Tiber embankment a…
• Santa SusannaSanta Susanna is at Via XX Settembre 15, on Piazza San Bernardo side, and today it can't be visited: the church has been closed to the public for r…
• Santo Stefano degli AbissiniSanto Stefano degli Abissini is inside Vatican City, in Largo Santo Stefano degli Abissini, behind the apse of Saint Peter's Basilica, and cannot b…
• Sora (FR)Sora is a town of about 26,000 inhabitants in the province of Frosinone, in southern Lazio, lying on both banks of the Liri River where the plain o…
• Subiaco (RM)Subiaco (RM) - Piazza S. Maria della Valle, 12-16, 00028 Subiaco RM
• Tor de’ Specchi MonasteryThe Tor de' Specchi Monastery, at Via del Teatro di Marcello 32, is not normally visited. It is the cloistered home of the Oblates of Saint Frances…
• Veroli (FR)Veroli (FR) is in the province of Frosinone, on a ridge of the Ernici Mountains at 594 meters above sea level, with Rocca di San Leucio reaching 67…
• Vitorchiano (VT)Vitorchiano is in the province of Viterbo, in the heart of the Tuscia, and is a little over an hour from Rome's Grande Raccordo Anulare. By car you…