A visit to the Chiaravalle Abbey in Milan. Trip to Lombardy, Italy

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Half a day wandering around without straying too far from home, and then by near Milan to visit two beautiful abbeys, and chiaravalle Viboldone.
Dedicated to Saint Mary Abbey of Clairvaux is located in the immediate vicinity of Milan is one of the first and most important Cistercian monasteries and places of worship among the most expensive in Milan. The Abbey was founded in 1135 by St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, who gave his name to the area, first call Rovegno. The abbey soon became a lively center, both in terms of both religious art: the monks drained the marshes and built around a magnificent architectural complex, which only the church remained intact.
The complex is accessed by a door made of a sturdy century tower, on whose side is the small oratory dedicated to St. Bernardo (1412) which has a fresco depicting Christ before Pilate, the allocation of Flanders. The church grounds have joined those of French-inspired Romanesque-Lombard tradition. Through a fine thirteenth-century portal, you find inside. The church has maintained its plant a Latin cross with three naves divided by cylindrical pillars: appearing for the first time, pointed arches, outlined by thin creases. The hand of Tuscan artists was heard in the decoration of the beautiful octagonal lantern that arises, however, from a square base. Here, unknown Sienese and Tuscan masters inspired perhaps Giotto, frescoed in the first half of the fourteenth century sacred stories of the Virgin. Precious frescoes that adorn the walls and the beautiful bell tower in 1340.
On the high artistic value are the thirteenth-century cloister, which remain on the northern and eastern two bays, with the frescoes of Gaudenzio Ferrari (first half of the sixteenth century), then the Chapter House with Renaissance windows in brick inscribed in the Roman and Refectory. The great cloister of Bramante built in 1493 was completely demolished in 1861 to build the railway. The Cistercians, expelled in 1798, are again in possession of the complex in 1952.