Certosa di Pavia Monastery
Day 6 - As we make our way from Milan to the Italian Riviera, we will stop for a visit at the Certosa di Pavia Monastery. As the pilgrims did hundreds of years ago, we also will be watching for the ornately carved facade of Certosa di Pavia as it rises out of the middle of the Italian countryside, among the rice fields and vineyards. Enjoy this drone footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEmSomqJFaU It is said that this early Gothic and Italian Renaissance masterpiece was born from a vow by Caterina Visconti to the Holy Virgin Mary in which she promised to establish a Carthusian monastery if she were blessed with a male heir. After she died in childbirth, Gian Visconti, first duke of Milan, commissioned the building of the complex on his family's hunting grounds. "Certosa" is the Italian name for "house of the monastic order of Carthusians". The church was the last of the complex to be built and would serve as the Visconti family mausole...