GC2EFGY Ruderi del Monastero degli Olivetani (Traditional Cache) in Veneto, Italy created by Brandorff

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Hidden : 9/4/2010

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Geocache Description:

Italiano:

Distanza dal parcheggio alla cache: 1,5 km
Dislivello parcheggio-cache: 270 m
Contenitore: 470 ml Lock&Lock scatola di plastica (ermetica e impermeabile), verniciato marrone

English:

Distance from parking to the cache: 1,5 km
Difference in altitude parking-cache: 270 m
Container: 470 ml Lock&Lock air- and waterproof plastic box, painted brown

Italiano:

Nel 1209 Stefano, ex priore di Santa Giustina, e frate Alberico fanno edificare due piccole chiese dedicate a S. Michele Arcangelo e a S. Giovanni Battista e dal 1229 il piccolo eremo diventa un vero e proprio monastero sotto la Regola di San Benedetto. I lasciti dei nobili Maltraversi di Castelnuovo e in seguito della famiglia dei Carraresi crebbero la sua importanza e al posto delle prime due chiese se ne edificò una più imponente dedicata a S. Giovanni Battista.

Nel 1380 fu affidato alla congregazione degli Olivetani, ordine aristocratico e abili pittori ed intagliatori di legno. La chiesa, ad unica navata rettangolare e possente campanile, aveva un altare, un coro in legno lavorato, un presbiterio con lesene in trachite scolpita e, sotto l'altare maggiore, la cripta dedicata alla Madonna. Il monastero d'impianto possente e austero era articolato in corridoi, celle, magazzini, chiostro e orti. Dopo un lungo periodo sereno durato fino al 1771, la Repubblica di Venezia soppresse il monastero, trasferi i monaci e mise all'asta il cenobio e i possedimenti che furono acquistati dalla famiglia Erizzo. Il complesso monumentale diventò rifugio di pastori e andò inevitabilmente in rovina.

English:

In 1209 Stephen, once prior of Saint Giustina Church and friar Alberico ordered the building of two small chapels dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel and to Saint John the Baptist.

In 1229 the small hermitage became a real monastary which followed Saint Benedict's rules. The monastary was supported by the noble Maltraversi family from Castelnuovo and, later on, by the Carrara family. Thus increased its fame and the two small chapels were replaced by a more majestic church dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

In 1380 the monastary went under the aristocratic Olivetani Order whose friars were good painters and wood-carvers. The church, composed of a single rectangular nave and an imposing church-bell, was provided with an altar, a wooden-curved choir, a presbyter with trachytic engraved strips. Under the high alter there was the crypt dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The imposing and austere monastery was divided into corridors, cells, stores, a cloister and kitchen gardens. After a long quiet period which lasted until 1771, the Republic of Venice destroyed the monastery, transferred the monks and put up to auction the cenoby and the assets, which were acquired by the Erizzo family. The building turned into a shelter for shepards and went to ruin.