Art Museums: Convent Of The Orsoline Sisters in Calvi dell'Umbria

The Museum of the Monastery of the Orsoline Sisters  is located within the monastic complex of Calvi dell'Umbria, characteristic medieval town surrounded by walls on the border between Umbria and Lazio. Inhabited by the Orsoline nuns until 1994, is one of the largest monasteries of Italy.
The museum houses the eighteenth-century furniture as dowry brought by the nuns at the monastery, some paintings of religious subjects, a shovel of the sixteenth-century and a wooden crucifix at the end of the fifteenth century. From the windows you can enjoy a splendid view over the valley and the mountains of San Pancrazio. It is an integral part of the museum tour the guided visit to historic kitchens of the monastery, to the wash, the charcoal and the woodshed. Most of the monastic complex, including kitchens, are designed by Ferdinando Fuga, one of the greatest architects of the eighteenth century. His is the facade of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, the design of the port of Ripetta (now destroyed), the women's prison in San Francesco a Ripa, the reorganization of the Vatican Palaces.