| Monte Cassino |
| The Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino 130 km south of Rome houses many of the finest mosaics that one can find in the world. Although the hilltop Abbey was built in 529 AD by Saint Benedict of Nursia, it was destroyed in feirce fighting at the end of World War II in 1944. The golden mosaics that we can see today both in the Abbey's courtyard and in the crypt under the main church were made when the Abbey was rebuilt after World War Two. Even if the mosaics are modern works, the forms that they follow are ancient. |
