Holiday breaks are an opportunity to leave behind stress and worries of a complicated life we are called to lead in this modern era of wired and seamless communications: this has greatly reduced time spent at home with family, especially with our lived one.

It is a fact of life that when something is not available we desire it the most – it’s not the low hanging fruit we seek but the distant pieces at the very top of the tree which are out of reach – time management has become important because of the scarcity factor, there isn’t much time to go around so we need be efficient and make the very best of what’s available, especially during a holiday.

The Fortress Monastery of Santo Spirito is the place to spend some (if not all of) your holidays in Italy, in the heart of Abruzzo, just minutes away from the A24 motorway Exit L’AQUILA EST.

A Castle Hotel offering the charm and beauty of bygone days, chambers and dungeons with centuries of history and thousands of stories to tell, this ancient and noble estate handed down to us from the past, has been transformed into a boutique castle hotel, one of those special travel destinations to satisfy the quest for knowledge where you’ll learn ancient traditions and behaviors: we learn from our past and by doing so shed light on our future.

What attracts a growing number of Guests to the Fortress Monastery of Santo Spirito is the secluded yet easily reachable position in a very scenic and panoramic location, on a hilltop overlooking the valley with an incredible view of the Gran Sasso d’Italia in the distance.

The Monastery of Santo Spirito is a Castle Hotel in Abruzzo, the first Cistercian settlement in the valley of L’Aquila. It was built in 1222 by Placido of Roio on an estate donated by Count Berardo of Ocre. After the founder’s death in 1248, the monastery came under the auspices of the Cistercian Order and the Convent of Santa Maria in Casanova, near Penne.

In 1330 it was already given in trust to the cardinals Maffeo and Francesco Barberini; in 1652 it was included in the list of the small monasteries abolished by Pope Innocent X.

The monastery is protected with high boundary walls which almost isolate it from the surrounding landscape. The internal space opens onto a square courtyard, originally a cloister and accommodating on each side, in the Cistercians convention, the church, the refectory, the dormitory and the chapter-room.

Today the Monastery of Santo Spirito is a castle hotel and leisure centre , a charming and very romantic location with a majestic view of the Aquilano valley and the Gran Sasso mountain peak towering at just under 3.000 meters.

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