Certosa di Pisa
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The Certosa di Pisa, also known as Certosa di Calci, is a former monastery, currently used as museum, located in the comune of Calci, some 10 km outside Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.
Artistically, the most relevant work is the Last Supper by Bernardino Poccetti (1597), in the refectory.
[edit] History
The Certosa (Italian for Carthusian monastery) was founded on May 30, 1466 by the archbishop of Pisa Francesco Moricotti, in what is called Val Graziosa, a plain overlooked by the Monti Pisani. In 1425 it acquired the Benedictine monastery on the Gorgona island. In the 17th and 18th century the complex was renovated, receiving the current Baroque appearance.
In 1981 the Pisan University moved its natural history museum here. the collection had been started in Pisa in the 16th century as a collection of curiosities connected to the Giardino dei Semplici. It houses now one of the largest collection of cetaceans skeletons in Europe, while halls dedicated to dinosaurs are being set up.
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