Morimondo
Member of I Borghi più belli d'Italia
Cistercian monks from Morimond, near Dijon, arrived here in 1134, drained the marshy land along the Ticino and gave both their abbey and the village its name. The brick abbey church, built between 1182 and 1296, is deliberately irregular, with off-centre windows and every capital different. Around it, fields and regular rows of poplars slope gently towards the river.
Highlights
- Morimondo Abbey, a brick church with an octagonal crossing tower
- The monastery museum: cloister, chapter house and the monks' workrooms
- Abbey workshops in manuscript illumination, scripts and herbal lore
- Coloured ceramic plates set into the brick walls
- Trecentesca, a reenactment of medieval warfare held every two years
Text adapted from Wikipedia (Morimondo (IT), Morimondo (EN)), Wikivoyage (Morimondo). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Population: 1,007
Things to see
Events through the year
- TrecentescaInternational medieval re-enactment in the meadow behind the abbey
- Feast of Saint BernardHistorical events and a fair
- Nativity scene exhibition
Dates follow the traditional patterns in our sources: check locally before you travel.
Adapted from Wikipedia (Morimondo), Wikivoyage (Morimondo). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Local food & wine
- GorgonzolaCheese
- TaleggioCheese
- RiceLocal produceGrown on the monastery's lands
Runny hunnyPublic domainHoneyLocal produceMany varieties from the monastery lands- Abbey monks' liqueursDrinkHerbal liqueurs sold at the abbey shop
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Adapted from Wikivoyage (Morimondo). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where to sleep
1 place to stay within 3 km
- Hotels 1
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