It's been a long time since I wrote on Hive, and I would like to do it, for once, without too many frills, telling you about the last weekend spent in the countryside around Latina, between Terracina and Fossanova.
Together with my partner we went to discover a real gem of Lazio. We visited the Fossanova Abbey, which is famous because Saint Thomas Aquinas spent his last hours there before dying.
The Fossanova Abbey was built in the 19th century and still retains its originality typical of the Benedictine monks who founded and maintained it over the centuries.
The style is very simple and bare, but for this reason it wants to recall the sacredness, without giving too much importance to large decorations and gaudy motifs.
The beauty of this medieval village and its Abbey lies in the Church, in the large spaces and high vaults, so tending to the spiritual, in the tranquility of the cloister and in the beauty of its geometry and simplicity.
We were lucky because we had the opportunity to visit the church that was being prepared for a wedding but, having arrived very early in the morning, we were able to visit both the church and the interior spaces of the Abbey, without visitors and in total tranquility, in the typical silence of the Benedictine monks.
We visited the chapel where the relics of Saint Thomas are kept and we had the opportunity to discover his story thanks to a series of explanatory and illustrative panels of his history and that of the abbey.
From 2022 to 2025, according to the Vatican State, there is the possibility of receiving plenary indulgence; penitent visitors who vacate the threshold of the Chapel of St. Thomas, will have to recite a series of prayers subject to certain principles and rules to be observed in order to have the validity of the indulgence by the Church.
Just outside the abbey, inside the medieval village there are small shops dedicated to visitors; in particular a small bakery that was opening at that moment, intrigued us and we were dragged inside by the smell that emanated.
The lady who ran the bakery had just baked some magnificent chocolate sweets, and we stayed inside to get a little greedy. In the end, we couldn't help but buy lots of sweets and biscuits.
There was truly something for every taste: cinnamon biscuits, chocolate biscuits in coconut flour chocolates, corn flour and much more.
We took a bit of everything and in particular I was tempted by the biscuits that she had just baked: the chocolate peaches that we brought as a gift to my parents' house.
In addition to having typical and quality products, the shop had a very particular and unique decor because it used old antique furniture to showcase all the products for sale, emphasizing the importance of the local tradition of baked goods and more.
We were very satisfied with this short but intense visit to Fossanova which is a very particular village, unique in its kind, easily reachable from Rome. This short visit of ours was interspersed with our walks along the beach of Terracina, at sunset. A pleasant discovery that I recommend to anyone passing through those parts.
I use pinmapple to give you the location of the place:
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