Abbazia di San Bartolomeo ( Italian for ''Abbey of San Bartolomeo'') is a

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). It was declared a

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in 1902. From December 2014 the Italian Ministry of Culture manages the abbey through il Polo museale dell'Abruzzo, which became Direzione regionale Musei in December 2019.

History

The abby was built in 962 by the will of Berardo or Bernardo, count of

Penne Penne () is an extruded type of pasta with cylinder-shaped pieces, their ends cut at an angle. ''Penne'' is the plural form of the Italian ''penna'' (meaning ''feather'' but ''pen'' as well), deriving from Latin ''penna'' (meaning "feather" or " ...

, on Pietrarossa mountain, located at the eastern slope of Mount Gran Sasso. Important information about the foundation and the properties of the Benedictine abbey can be found in the chronicle written by the monk Alessandro, which tells the story of the monastery from its origins until 1193. From this text it is possible to draw most of the historical information relating to the Monastery. For example, in

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the founder's grandson, who ironically was also called Berardo or Bernardo, occupied the Abbey, its service buildings, its fields and completely destroyed the areas of the Monastery occupied by the Monks, forcing them to flee and leaving as the only religious guardian of the place his brother Sansone, who had previously made himself a monk; in the same year, however, the

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led by Ugo Malmozzetto (one of the captains of Roberto di Loritello, in turn right arm of Roberto il Guiscardo) who had begun the conquest of coastal Abruzzo in

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, dismissed Berardo from the County of Penne, taking his place, and freeing the Abbey of San Bartolomeo from its tyranny. In the Chronicon there is no mention of reconstructions, although the oldest parts of the building seem to date back to the 12th and 13th centuries, in addition to the restoration carried out in the 1970s by the Superintendency; the bell tower, for example, was finished in the course of the 11th century by Abbot Erimondo, who died in 1074. The first abbot was Benedetto, chosen by Count Berardo, and under his regency the arm of San Bartolomeo reached the monastery, an event so exceptional that it attracted the bishops of Teate, Valva,

, Marsica and Apruzio to the abbey.

Architecture

References

External links

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Bartolomeo Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo is a masculine Italian given name, the Italian equivalent of Bartholomew. Its diminutive form is Baccio. Notable people with the name include: * Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo (1824–1860), Italian paleobotanist and liche ...

Carpineto della Nora