Abbazia Cistercense di Santa Maria di Piona
Lakeside Cistercian monastery on a wooded peninsula, famed for Romanesque cloister and monk-distilled herbal liqueurs.
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This guide to the Abbazia Cistercense di Santa Maria di Piona on Lake Como traces a bottle of herbal liqueur back to a tragedy on a road crew in Ethiopia in the nineteen thirties, where the wealthy Rocca family lost two of their own during the war there. It follows what the grieving family chose to do with the lakeside monastery they owned, and how Cistercian monks from Casamari arrived in February 1938 to take up an old monastic trade of distilling.
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