Camaldoli in Tuscany 1

I just got back from Italy last week. I was first in Tuscany, in the center of Italy (think, Florence), at the Monastery of Camaldoli in the Apennines, where I spent almost half of my life. This monastery and the nearby hermitage are enveloped in nature, in the forest of the High Casentino, Italy's largest wooded area. Entering the monastery's guest quarters is like time-traveling: you begin in the eleventh century, then move into the fifteenth, and finally the early seventeenth, the major cloister (= courtyard) around which most of the monks have their rooms, alongside the church where they sing hymns and psalms three or four times a day.

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• Monastery
• Camaldoli
• Italy
• Tuscany
• nature
• ecology
• monks
• forest

[yannipapastavrou]

Loved the tour! Thank you for posting this and for the insights into monastic life. Greetings from London, UK!

[phcou]

Thanks for this, Mr Matus. Hope you had your bonfire of the vanities :-)

[9macrina9]

thank you so much, Thomas.