The church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Ferentino is one of the most beautiful monuments of southern Lazio.
it is one of the first churches in the Cistercian Gothic style along with Fossanova and Casamari.
It is believed that formerly the abbey wasconnected with that of Casamari and should possess a cloister, the remains of arches on the north wall being testimony.
It was built in the second half of the thirteenth century and the building is the work of the Cistercian monks.
The monks were in the area since 1135, when St. Bernard of Clairvaux, with the protection and support of Pope Innocent III, came to renew the Benedictine order.
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