Santo Spirito

The Abbey of Santo Spirito d'Ocre (Italian: Monastero di Santo Spirito d'Ocre) was a Cistercian monastery located in Ocre, Province of L'Aquila, Italy.

== History == The fortified monastery was built in 1226 on an ancient religious building, existing since 1222. In 1248 Santo Spirito became a Cistercian abbey, founded by the mother abbey of Casanova, line of Clairvaux, and it was ruled by the Cistercians until 1692.

== Architecture == The monastery is a fortified building, with walls all around the abbey and a very small number of windows and doors. Inside the walls, all the usual components of a monastery are still in place, with the church on the north side and the remaining rooms of the abbey in the two buildings on the west and east sides.

== See also == List of Cistercian monasteries

References

== Bibliography == Mammarella, Luigi (1995). "Santo Spirito d'Ocre". Abbazie e monasteri cistercensi in Abruzzo (in Italian). Cerchio (AQ): Adelmo Polla Editore. p. 101-109. ISBN 8874070276. Santangelo, Enrico (2002). "Il monastero di Santo Spirito d'Ocre". Castelli e tesori d'arte della Media Valle dell'Aterno (in Italian). Pescara: Carsa Edizioni. p. 49-56. ISBN 88-501-0051-5. Latini, Marialuce (2000). "Il monastero fortificato di Santo Spirito d'Ocre". Guida ai Castelli d'Abruzzo (in Italian). Pescara: Carsa Edizioni. p. 55. ISBN 88-501-0051-5.

External links

"Chiesa di Santo Spirito" (in Italian). Regione Abruzzo. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2014. Janauschek, Leopold (1877). Originum Cisterciensium - in quo, praemissis congregationum domiciliis adjectisque tabulis chronologico-genealogicis, veterum abbatiarum a monachis habitatarum fundationes ad fidem antiquissimorum fontium primus descripsit (in Latin). Vol. I. Vienna: Puthod. p. 341. Retrieved December 30, 2014.