Abbazia di Montecassino   22755
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Location: Monte Cassino (520 m)      by: Giuseppe Marzulli
Area: Italy      Date: August 2013
Monte Cassino is a rocky hill about 130 kilometres southeast of Rome.
St. Benedict of Nursia established his first monastery (Abbazia di Montecassino), the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529.
It was the site of the Battle of Monte Cassino in 1944, where the building was destroyed by Allied bombing and rebuilt after the war.

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Sehr schön dokumentiert und in Szene gesetzt. VG HJ
2013/09/18 03:49 , Hans-Jürgen Bayer
Well done. A view already missed!
Kind regards Christoph
2013/09/18 07:47 , Christoph Seger

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