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Vallombrosa
Vallombrosa is a Benedictine abbey 21 miles (33 km) south-east of Florence, in the Apennines, surrounded by forests of beech and firs. It was founded by Giovanni Gualberto, a Florentine noble in 1038 and became the mother house of the Vallumbrosan Order.
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