Certosa del Galluzzo
Certosa del Galluzzo - Charterhouse of Ema at Galluzo. The abbey was founded in 1341 as a Carthusian monastery. In 1957, a group of Cistercian friars replaced the Carthusian monks as the inhabitants of the Certosa.
"On the hill of Montacuto, which is clothed with cypresses and olive-trees, at the confluence of the Ema with the Oreve and 5 min. above the road, rises the imposing Certosa di Val d'Ema (375 ft.). The monastery was founded in 1341 by Niceolo Aceiaioli, a Florentine who had settled at Naples and there amassed a large fortune by trading".--Baedeker 1906.
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