Benedectine Monasteries of Subiaco , clic sull'icona benedettina per tornare alla home
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By climbing the Talèo one reaches the little wood of holmoaks with a series of steps leading to the shrine which is as it were spluttered against the rock, a real "swallow's nest", as it seemed to Pius II in 1461.
The beauty of the shrine, which comprises two churches one above the other and several chapels, consist particularly in the artistic irregular arrangement of walls, vault and steps which are almost identified with the rocks, and in the paintings which decorate every surface, thus making numerous lights, and adorning the faint light of the passages and the caves.