Visit the town of Abbazia di Staffarda during your stay in Liguria, Italy.
Abbazia di Staffarda
Today you can visit the monastery with food and dormitory and the beautiful red brick cloister and gain an insight of the then living here monks.
After the visit you can served in the restaurant of the monastery (closed Mon.) With the homemade corn cakes or pasta di Meliga.
The Abbazia di Staffarda (daily. 9:00 - 12:30, 14:00 - 17:00, summer until 18:00) is about 10 km from Saluzzo and is one of Piedmont best preserved Cistercian abbeys. The monks then farmed the surrounding swampland so well that developed here within a short time a thriving agricultural center.