Cultural site
Abbazia di Fossanova
Italy
About
Built by Cistercian monks between 1163 and 1208 on the ruins of a Roman villa, in a plain style halfway between Romanesque and Gothic. The monks drained the marsh with the Fossa Nova canal that named the place, and Thomas Aquinas died in the abbey in 1274.
41.43833, 13.19516
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