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Tourist information - Cassino

The main feature of attraction here has to be the monastery of Montecassino, the monastery established by St. Benedict in or around 529AD. Here is some important information to read before visiting the Abbey.

The high number of pilgrims that every day come to the Abbey, by hundreds and thousands, keeps the Fathers from granting the requests submitted to them, to begin with to guide the visitors through the Monastery. information to read before visiting the Abbey.

Visitors are demanded to respect the sacrality of the place they are in (they don't need to consider it as the pleasure-ground) along with they have to maintain a severe and also intent behaviour, avoiding to speak aloud or perhaps make noise inside the cloisters. On behalf of visitors is particularly requested to keep silent in the Church.
On behalf of visitors is particularly requested to keep silent in the Church.

It's forbidden:

to come in the Abbey unsuitably dressed; women dressing shorts, sleeve-less or perhaps mini-skirts and men with shorts along with vests will not be admitted into the Abbey; to write around the walls or perhaps everywhere (everyone can sign a special register at the waiting-room);
to take pictures with the flash;
to smoke inside the cloisters.
Abbey entrance hours are:

from 8.30 a. m. to 12.30 a. m. in the morning
from 3.30 p. m. to 5 p. m. (6 p. m. in summer time) in the afternoon

Pilgrims are requested to keep carefully to above-mentioned hours to prevent trouble as well as confusion to the way of living Monks as well as to all the activities carried on at the Monastery.

During Festivities, when there are sung masses, people are allowed only to enter the Church.

HIGH MASS HOURS
9.0 a. m. - 10.30 a. m. - 12.0 a. m.

In winter the Museum is only open on Sunday.

Remember that there's no refreshment room or even any place where people can have meal within the Abbey (it's forbidden to eat in the cloisters).

The nearby Cassino and the easy way of accessing it allow satisfying all visitors' requirements. Sometimes the Fathers organize spiritual retirement periods (men only).

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