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Example sentences for: monastery

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At the back of the cloister of Santa Croce’s Franciscan monastery adjoining the church, Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel (Cappella dei Pazzi) is a little gem of Renaissance elegance designed in 1443.
On the southeast edge of the Vomero hill just below the massive Castel Sant’Elmo, the elegant Baroque Charterhouse Certosa di San Martino offers a soothing haven of tranquility in its cloisters and monastery gardens — and unbeatable views.
Ten kilometers (6 miles) west of Athens is the Monastery of Daphni (soon to be linked with the downtown area by Metro extension) built on the site of an earlier Temple of Apollo.
An unexpected piece of historical memorabilia turns up in the monastery garden, where guides point out a small stone table used for a treaty-signing ceremony in 1844.
Constantinople was taken by Crusader forces in 1204, and they stripped the city of manyof its finest treasures — which now grace the public buildings of Venice — although a large consignment of books and manuscripts was transferred to the monastery at Patmos before the city fell.