Abbazia di Chiaravalle
In Abbazia di Chiaravalle, a Cistercian house once reshaped the landscape south of Milan: on 22 January 1135 it was founded as a daughter house of Clairvaux, linked to Bernard of Clairvaux, who intervened in the papal dispute between Pope Innocent II and Antipope Anacletus II. The permanent church took shape after temporary buildings, with construction beginning around 1150–1160, and the church was consecrated on 2 May 1221. That date matters beyond piety, because the complex became one of the first Gothic examples in Italy, even while retaining late Romanesque influences. Over the following centuries, the first cloister was built in the 13th century, the crossing tower and refectory in the 14th, and a small chapel was added in 1412—later used as the sacristy. …
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