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Certosa di Pavia

1396 · 14th century

The Certosa di Pavia is a Carthusian monastery north of Pavia in Lombardy, founded in 1396 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti as a family mausoleum. Built over more than a century, it combines late Gothic and Renaissance styles, and its marble façade, carved from the 1490s, is among the richest of the Italian Renaissance.

Certosa di Pavia
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Commune of Pavia

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Certosa di Pavia. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/certosa-di-pavia
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The Epoch Institute. “Certosa di Pavia.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/certosa-di-pavia.
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