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Some Less Visited Cloisters in Tuscany

 

Torri - the only Romanesque cloister left in Tuscany (open Monday and Friday mornings)

 

PHOTOS IN PARADOXPLACE

 

There is another beautiful little cloister (not photographed) at  the convent of Cetona (SE of Montepulciano) - the first Franciscan Convent (1212)

 

Monte Oliveto Maggiore (Benedictine / Olivetian) - the life of S Benedict frescoed by Signorelli and Sodoma in the Great Cloister of the Abbey

 

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CLOISTERS IN NEW YORK

and for stay at home New Yorkers, don't despair, your very own Metropolitan Museum of Art has lifted 5 medieval French cloisters and a chapter house, and replanted them in Tryon Park, North Manhattan

 

The Great Cloister of the Carthusian Certosa di Firenze (now Cistercian) with the monks' cemetery in the foreground

The Great Cloister of the Carthusian Certosa di Siena (with bride) - now part of the University of Siena Campus

The cloister of the Augustinian convent of Lecetto - deep in the woods to the west of Siena

The cloister of the Benedictine Badia Fiorentina (now a convent) which once in the "dark ages" owned everything around ! 

Open only on Monday afternoons.
Brunelleschi's Great Cloister at the Franciscan Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence
Michelozzo's Cloister at the ex-Dominican Convent of San Marco, Florence

The tiny painted churchless Choistro dello Scalzo - at via Cavour 69 (just past San Marco)

(presently open Monday, Thursday and Saturday mornings)

 

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