NORMAN ARCH OF SAN GIOVANNI IN FIORE

L '1200 Norman Arch built in the contemporary period the Abbey Florense, the florense Arco is today, along with the abbey itself the symbol of the city of San Giovanni in Fiore, and one of the town's monuments.
It was built in the early thirteenth century, and was the gateway of the original walls of the monastery florense system, which in addition to the abbey was formed by a series of buildings adjacent to it, such as workshops, kitchens, carpentry and the farm tools, as well as some buildings used for recreation and as a shelter for those who came to the monastery

The Norman arch is shaped sixth arched, and certainly dates back to when the monastic village was under the rule of the Normans in the twelfth century. The walls and above the arches, had been blasted around the monastic village, and not only serve as the protective gates, they also certainly the function of extraterritorial urban boundaries, beyond which it was immune from any penalty imposed by the Court judicial Norman.

NORMAN ARCH OF SAN GIOVANNI IN FIORE

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