Morimondo

Cistercian monks from Morimond, near Dijon, arrived here in 1134, drained the marshy land along the Ticino and gave both their abbey and the village its name. The brick abbey church, built between 1182 and 1296, is deliberately irregular, with off-centre windows and every capital different. Around it, fields and regular rows of poplars slope gently towards the river.

Highlights

• Morimondo Abbey, a brick church with an octagonal crossing tower
• The monastery museum: cloister, chapter house and the monks' workrooms
• Abbey workshops in manuscript illumination, scripts and herbal lore
• Coloured ceramic plates set into the brick walls
• Trecentesca, a reenactment of medieval warfare held every two years

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