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The Charterhouse, founded in 1366 thanks to the financial support of illustrious Pisan families, stands among the olive trees of Valgraziosa, rather isolated from the town of Calci which is about 1 km away. you can enjoy the perspective view of the double facade of the complex. The more external one, lower, was intended for functions that could also be accessed by the inhabitants of the area: the pharmacy, the chapel of San Sebastiano or of the women, the parlor, and, separated from the court of honor, a large green lawn area, the facade of the monastery itself in the center of which is the spectacular facade of the church, covered in white marble, with a double flight of steps and the crowning of the tympanum with the statue of the Assumption among angels. The convent, a cloistered monastery of the Carthusian order of San Bruno, was suppressed first in the Napoleonic era, and then by the Savoy, but was once again inhabited by the monks until 1969 when they definitively abandoned it. In the Certosa the rooms dedicated to the hermit's life are open to the public, the large cloister along whose arms the 15 monks' cells are arranged, one of which is open to the visit, the religious environments, the church and chapels and those where he carried out the cenobitic life, the refectory and the chapter. In the sacristy there is the Atlantic Bible, an extraordinary illuminated manuscript of the twelfth century in four volumes; the visit to the monumental part ends with the Grand Ducal guesthouse, the guesthouse cloister, the picture gallery and the long corridors whose walls are enriched with refined fresco decorations. The Certosa houses the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa set up mainly in the service rooms of the monastery: the grandiose granary, about 100 meters long, the oil mill, the laundries, the service courtyards for agricultural activities.

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via Roma, 79
56011 Calci

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