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Padula Charterhouse, in Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 Certosa di Padula (or Certosa di San Lorenzo di Padula), is a large and famous Carthusian
Carthusian

The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of Enclosed religious orders Monasticism. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns....
 monastery, or charterhouse, located in the town of Padula
Padula

Padula is a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.It is the home of the Carthusian monastery Certosa di San Lorenzo, sometimes referred to as the Certosa di Padula....
, in the Cilento National Park (near Salerno
Salerno

Salerno is a town in southern Italy, capital of the Province of Salerno of the same name, in the region of Campania. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
) in Southern Italy. It is a World Heritage site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
.

The monastery is the second largest charterhouse in Italy after the one in Parma
Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its architecture and the fine countryside around it. It is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
. Its building history covers 450 years, but the principal parts of the buildings are in Baroque
Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
 style.






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Padula Charterhouse, in Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 Certosa di Padula (or Certosa di San Lorenzo di Padula), is a large and famous Carthusian
Carthusian

The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of Enclosed religious orders Monasticism. The order was founded by Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns....
 monastery, or charterhouse, located in the town of Padula
Padula

Padula is a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.It is the home of the Carthusian monastery Certosa di San Lorenzo, sometimes referred to as the Certosa di Padula....
, in the Cilento National Park (near Salerno
Salerno

Salerno is a town in southern Italy, capital of the Province of Salerno of the same name, in the region of Campania. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
) in Southern Italy. It is a World Heritage site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
.

The monastery is the second largest charterhouse in Italy after the one in Parma
Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its architecture and the fine countryside around it. It is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
. Its building history covers 450 years, but the principal parts of the buildings are in Baroque
Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
 style. It is a very large monastery, comprising 51,500 mē (12.7 acres), with 320 rooms and halls.

History


Padula Charterhouse was founded by Tommaso di San Severino on 27 April 1306 on the site of an earlier monastery. It is dedicated to Saint Lawrence
Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence was one of the seven deacons of ancient Rome who were martyred during the persecution of Roman Emperor Valerian in the year 258....
, and its architectural structure supposedly recalls the griddle-iron upon which the saint was burnt alive.

The monastery has the biggest cloister
Cloister

A cloister is a covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle or garth. The attachment of a cloister to a cathedral or church usually indicates that it is part of a monastic foundation....
 in the world, covering 12,000 mē (2.97 acres) and surrounded by 84 columns. A famous spiral staircase
Stairway

Stairway, staircase, stairwell, flight of stairs or simply stairs are names for a construction designed to bridge a large vertical direction distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps....
 of white marble
Marble

Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
 inside an annex leads to the large library.

According to the strict Carthusian distinction between contemplation
Contemplation

The word Contemplation comes from the Latin root templum , and means to separate something from its environment, and to enclose it in a sector. Contemplation is the Latin translation of Greek 'theory' ....
 and work, there are two distinct places for these practices: on the one hand the peaceful cloisters, the library with its fine Vietri ceramic tiled floor, the chapels decorated with fine inlaid marble works and the cloister orchards; and on the other hand the large kitchen, the cellars with their enormous wine vats, the laundries, and the huge external yards, where there were people working in the stables, ovens, stores, and at the olive oil mill. The yards were used for productive activities and for trade between the charterhouse and the external world.

The monastery also houses the archaeological museum of Western Lucania, which preserves a collection of all the finds unearthed in the excavations at the necropolis
Necropolis

A necropolis is a large cemetery or burial place . Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term...
 of Sala Consilina
Sala Consilina

Sala Consilina is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy....
 and Padula
Padula

Padula is a comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.It is the home of the Carthusian monastery Certosa di San Lorenzo, sometimes referred to as the Certosa di Padula....
. This museum represents a period of time ranging from protohistory
Protohistory

Protohistory refers to a period between prehistory and history, during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed writing, but other cultures have already noted its existence in their own writings....
 to the Hellenistic Age.

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