Praglia Abbey
The Benedictine abbey in Praglia lies at the foot of the Euganean Hills, 12 Km from Padua. The monastery was founded between 11th and 12th century by the powerful family of Maltraverso di Montebello.
The abbey complex is the result of a great work of reconstruction carried out between the second half of the XV and the first half of the XVI century. The only visible part of the original medieval building remain the basement of the tower bell. The vastness of the building, the harmonic rationality and equilibrium of the four cloisters articulating the space, the architectonic style in which the late gothic and the incipient renaissance styles are happily integrated, makes the abbey of praglia a remarkable monument of art.
Praglia Abbey
The Benedictine abbey in Praglia lies at the foot of the Euganean Hills, 12 Km from Padua. The monastery was founded between 11th and 12th century by the powerful family of Maltraverso di Montebello.
The abbey complex is the result of a great work of reconstruction carried out between the second half of the XV and the first half of the XVI century. The only visible part of the original medieval building remain the basement of the tower bell. The vastness of the building, the harmonic rationality and equilibrium of the four cloisters articulating the space, the architectonic style in which the late gothic and the incipient renaissance styles are happily integrated, makes the abbey of praglia a remarkable monument of art.