Saturday, October 15, 2005

Certosa di Pavia


Certosa di Pavia
Originally uploaded by anbri22.
(D70 Nikkor 24mm 2,8)
detail - better in Large Size
Closer to Pavia than to Milan - along a canal connecting the two towns - the building of this charterhouse began in 1386 by order of duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti. It was intended to be both a Carthusian monastery and a sepulchral church for the Viscontis.

Uploaded by anbri22 on 14 Oct '05, 9.44pm CET.

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