Fossanova Abbey

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Fossanova Abbey, earlier Fossa Nuova, is a Cistercian monastery in Italy, in the province of Rome, near the railway-station of Priverno, c. 100 kilometers south-east of Rome.

It is the finest example of a Cistercian abbey, and of the Burgundian Early Gothic style, in Italy, and dates from the end of the 12th to the end of the 13th century. The church (1187-1208) is closely similar to that of Casamari. The other conventual buildings also are noteworthy. Saint Thomas Aquinas died here in 1274.

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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• Fossanova Abbey website
• Adrian Fletcher’s Paradoxplace – Fossanova pages – Photos of Cistercian Abbeys