MONASTERY 1380

Cut off from the surrounding landscape, being at the same time in their presence an essential part of it, without touching more than is absolutely necessary, as if they were only partly in the clouds, partly flowing through it unwittingly, just like the thoughts in the souls of those who have decided to live their presence to linger in the absence of other people. The monastery is dedicated to the Trappists, the male branch of the Cistercian Order of Strict Observance, founded in France in the 17th century, considered today one of the strictest Catholic orders, whose members live in silence, which, according to them, is necessary for the silence in which it is possible to perceive god. Their normal day runs according to the motto "Ora et labora", i.e. "Pray and work".