Padula Charterhouse private tour: An Italian hidden gem (Unesco)
Padula Charterhouse private tour: An Italian hidden gem (Unesco)
Padula Charterhouse private tour: An Italian hidden gem (Unesco)
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Highlights
The guided tour in Padula will focus in the monastery, the largest in Italy and among the largest in Europe.
The Certosa di San Lorenzo, it is a very large monastery, with 320 rooms and halls. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998.
The visit starts from the entrance hall with the cloister of the guesthouse and then enter the church and admire the decorations in Neapolitan baroque style with golden stucco, majolica floors and marble altars. You will remain open-eyed seeing the wooden choir of the Fathers with 16th-century wooden inlays and then go through the hall of the bells, the Chapter and the Treasury. The tour continues with the view of the great refectory hall with the fresco of the Cana wedding of Francesco d'Elia and the magnificent kitchen with a large central hood and decorated with majolica tiles.
The tour continues by visiting the cloister of the prior and the large central cloister until you arrive at the end of the tour to the monumental elliptical staircase
Itinerary
Certosa di Padula
2 hoursAdmission Ticket Not IncludedThe Charterhouse of Padula is one of the largest and most impressive monasteries in Europe, located in southern Italy. Founded in the 14th century, it combines Renaissance and Baroque architecture, with monumental cloisters, rich decorations, and vast spaces. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and represents an important example of Carthusian monastic life.
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INR 38,508
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