Abbey of St Maria del Monte

The Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte is a Benedicine monastery in Cesena, Italy. This enforcing building stands on the Colle Spaziano. The abbey became based about the year 1001 and finished by 1026, in reference to a small church which housed the remains of St. Mauro, a Benedictine monk who were the Bishop of Cesena within the first half of the 10^th century, and who had the custom of mountaineering the hill on which the abbey stands which will pray. His vita become written by using the Camaldolese monk and cardinal, Peter Damian. The abbey was showed in 1059 by a papal bull of Pope Nicholas II.

The abbey benefited substantially whilst it acquired the Emperor Frederic Barbarossa as a guest in 1177. The emperor gave the abbey his protection and bestowed a big furnish of land to the network. In 1356, however, the ruler of Forlì, Francesco II Ordelaffi, seized the monastery and used it as a barracks for his troops. The priests fled for over year. Upon their return, they observed the abbey in ruins. The reconstruction lasted for over a century.