The hermitage of Camaldoli is found in the heart of the Casentino, to around thousand meters high on the level of the sea, absorbed in the green of a secular forest.
In this place around the first years of the Thousand St. Romualdo it founded the order of the monks camaldolesi, with few cellettes you separate the one from the other.
A few years later the monastery was built, to valley of the hermitage, that also worked as I shelter for the pilgrims, what it was magnified today still in the centuries preserve the sixteenth-century pharmacy that you see in photo.
The monastery and the hermitage of Camaldoli it is one of the destinations preferred by the visitors and by the tourists that they pass in Casentino, together with the Sanctuary of the Verna, other great center of present spirituality in the valley.
Today the secular forest of Camaldoli belongs to the National park of the Forests Casentinesi, Mountain Falterona and Campigna.
The forest is lent particularly for runs trekking, walks afoot, picnic and camping.
If you are interested to visit Camaldoli you could be interested to:
Artigianato
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