Staffarda Abbey

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The monastery Staffarda (Santa Maria di Staffarda ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Piedmont, Italy. It is located in the town of Revello in the province of Cuneo, on the true left bank of the Po River, about 8 km southeast of Cavour near the road to Saluzzo.

History

The monastery was founded on one of Margrave of Saluzzo Manfred I. donated land in 1135 and settled by monks who came from the monastery Tiglieto. May exist at that time in place already a monastery. Thus, the Monastery of filiation primary abbey La Ferté belonged to. In the 12th and 13th centuries the monastery were granted various privileges. It founded the short-lived Monastery of Santa Maria di Sala in Lazio. Also the monastery Rivalta di Torino was assumed some decades after its acquisition by the Cistercian Order Staffarda. The Staffarda Abbey, which was like 1463 in Upcoming, came in 1497 in the Italian Cistercian Congregation. The buildings were drawn in the battle of Staffarda in 1690 affected, but afterwards rebuilt. In 1750, the abbey by Pope Benedict XIV was lifted and transferred to the donated by the Dukes of Savoy Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus. 1804, the church became a parish church. From 1826 to 1840 and from 1920 to 1926 took place restoration work.

Plant and buildings

The three-nave church with polychrome decorated porch has three Langhausjoche and a choir bay, a false transept, which is no wider than the nave ships, and in the east three semicircular apses. From the south (right) located by the Church exam is especially the east wing with the neunjochigen chapter house and located in the southeast corner large work room of the monks of interest. The west side of the exam is renewed. From the great cloister of the north and the west wing are obtained. The enclosure buildings were increased in 1751 by Giovanni Tommaso Prunotti. The Konversentrakt in the West was separated by an alley monastery (see Kloster Eberbach ) from the cloister. Next, get the guest quarters ( Foresteria to 1230), the late Gothic Abtsgebäude and built before 1300 open market hall in the south.