Santa Maria di Monte Mirteto

Santa Maria di Monte Mirteto is a monastery in Cisterna di Latina, Latina, Lazio. Santa Maria di Monte Mirteto is situated nearby to the cave Grotta di Sant’Angelo della stramma, as well as near the church chiesa rupestre di San Michele Arcangelo.

Type: Religious organization
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: monasteryin Norma, Italy

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Porta Maggiore and Valvisciolo Abbey.

Porta Maggiore

City gate

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Porta Maggiore is a city gate, which is situated 1 km east of Santa Maria di Monte Mirteto.

Valvisciolo Abbey

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Valvisciolo Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in the province of Latina, central Italy, near the towns of Sermoneta and Ninfa. It is an example of rigorous Romanesque-Cistercian architecture, considered a masterpiece of that style in central Italy second only to the nearby Fossanova Abbey. Valvisciolo Abbey is situated 3½ km southeast of Santa Maria di Monte Mirteto.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norma and Sermoneta.

Norma

Village

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Norma is a comune in the Province of Latina in the Italian region Lazio, located about 50 kilometres southeast of Rome and about 14 kilometres northeast of Latina in the Monti Lepini range.

Sermoneta

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Sermoneta is a hill town and comune in the province of Latina, central Italy. It is a walled hill town, with a 13th-century Romanesque church, the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta and a massive castle, built by the Annibaldi family then purchased and expanded by Caetani family in the 13th century.