Saturday 5 April 2014

La certosa di padula






2 comments:

M said...

Beautiful - what is it exactly?

Gustave Norman Grid said...

It's a monastery (in French une chartreuse), the view here is of the second cloister (huge), entirely devolved to the habitations of the monk who all (about 27 of them, not much more than that I think) have a particular 'apartment' and garden, in which they can lead a life of contemplation. They were dislodged and spoiled of their opulent possessions by Murat...