This monastery of St. Benedict or Sacro Speco is a monument ‘in memoriam' built in memory of the hermitage of Saint Benedict.
The saint lived in a cave (now part of the monastery) in Subiaco for about three years.
The cave was visited by pilgrims in the eleventh century and this monastery was built at 650 meters height on the side of Mount Taleo.
You enter from the Sacro Speco (sacred cave) upper church, from the fourteenth century.
The church has medieval frescoes of the Sienese school (XIV century) related to the episodes of the last part of the life of Christ.
Other frescoes (XV century) are about the life of St. Benedict by the Umbria-Marche school.
The floor of the church is adorned with cosmati style mosaics by Italian master craftsmen.
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