Monastero delle Monache
Benedettine del SS.Crocifisso
Come out from Citerna, towards Tuscany, less than a mile is the church and monastery of the Benedictine Nuns of the Blessed Crucifix. Rises on what was once the oldest Franciscan settlement in the area. Restored and enlarged in the first half of the sixteenth century, the complex was severely damaged in the hurricane of 1890 before being abandoned in 1917 after the damage caused by the earthquake. Adapted to house by the Count G.Manzoni in 1918, the building was later re-used as a monastery. In the church are several fine works of art including paintings made between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, depicting Our Lady and Child, various representations of Christ and figures of saints. It is also preserved in a fourteenth-century fresco depicting Christ on the Cross with Mary and S.Giovanni the sides and at the feet, knees, Mary Magdalene.