Vallombrosa

Vallombrosa (shady valley), a former Benedictine monastery in a valley of the Apennines, eighteen miles from Florence, founded in 1039 by Giovanni Gualberto (q.v.). The present buildings were erected: in 1638, but the establishment was suppressed in 1869 by the Italian government, and. the buildings converted into a royal school of forestry.

 
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