Certosa di Padula
Certosa di Padula
4.5
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Padula Charterhouse, in Italian Certosa di Padula (or Certosa di San Lorenzo di Padula), is a large Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, located in the town of Padula, in the Cilento National Park (near Salerno) in Southern Italy. It is a World Heritage site.
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GENNARO R
Paestum, Italy2 contributions
Feb 2024 • Friends
The potential of this monument is very high, it's a pity about the lack of staff and therefore the inaccessibility of some pleasant places to visit (the large cloister, the cells, the library...), a positive review instead for the guide, who was prepared on everything what you wanted to know about. I find the position of the ticket office inside the ancient apothecary unpleasant. Wonderful frescoes and sculptures from the 14th and 18th centuries.
At the moment, in my opinion, the price of entry cannot be 7 euros given the few places actually open to visitors to the place.
At the moment, in my opinion, the price of entry cannot be 7 euros given the few places actually open to visitors to the place.
Written 22 February 2024
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FrancescoD1960
Castel San Giorgio, Italy132 contributions
Sept 2023 • Friends
A sumptuous, beautiful historical cultural site with a thousand and one curiosities. Like the helical staircase that gives access to the library but which unfortunately is closed and is only opened for special events, or the final staircase which is also closed for works. Even the immense central cloister is cordoned off and cannot be accessed. A real shame to have found so many sections closed to the public, because, it should be noted, you have to pay to enter, you come from afar and you would like to be able to visit the complex in its entirety. Beyond the limitations, what can be seen is spectacular, in an excellent state of conservation, with an important sequence of finely decorated chapels and chapels with designed floors. Even the gardens are beautiful.
Written 20 September 2023
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Anna C
Alcamo454 contributions
Dec 2023 • Friends
I visited the Certosa di Padula on 9 December 2023 with my large group of friends (we went by bus and there were 41 of us, all coming from Sicily!). I wanted this experience because I had never seen the place but I didn't imagine that it would surprise not only me - who had informed myself beforehand and had already formed an idea - but also my traveling companions who were amazed! We were welcomed and accompanied by a very courteous and knowledgeable young Tour Guide, Giuseppe Verga, who introduced us to the Monastery with his complete and effective narration and led us to visit all the places where the life of the noble Carthusian Monks took place. social extraction and for this reason very inclined to a taste for beauty and luxury (how can we not mention the marble staircase leading to the upper floor which cost the beauty, at the time, of 64,000 ducats equivalent to around 3 million euros today and which doesn't it have any real use!?) We thank our Guide who was able to involve us, making us concentrate on the history and places and helping us overcome the discomfort of a cold winter day! His publication on the history of the Certosa enriched with beautiful descriptive photos is also excellent!
P.S. our Guide was also very courteous in suggesting where to have lunch by contacting us directly the owners of the restaurant adjacent to the entrance to the Monastery where we were all able to refresh ourselves.👍
P.S. our Guide was also very courteous in suggesting where to have lunch by contacting us directly the owners of the restaurant adjacent to the entrance to the Monastery where we were all able to refresh ourselves.👍
Written 15 December 2023
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Aetnensis
Catania, Italy107 contributions
Jul 2024 • Family
The Charterhouse is really huge and lovely.
Unfortunately, the part that can be visited is only that of the ground floor and not even in its entirety.
Guided tour is almost compulsory, otherwise you do not understand much of what you see, obviously hoping to happen with the guide we had, prepared must (not only on the Certosa di Padula but also on other similar places of art and not, scattered around Italy), with a way of doing that reminded the television popularizers (sometimes too much).
An unforgivable flaw in my opinion is the fashion, actually found only in Campania in more monuments, to mix in such places even "questionable" exhibitions of contemporary art that have nothing to do with them.
The photo I attach is a sheet of paper that says that in those walls is hidden a plate of gold; seeing it, without any other caption, label or reference, intrigued me as it seemed that the rich Carthusians, for some reason, had really hidden the so-called plate of gold somewhere and so I asked the Guide for lights ... that sheet of paper "is a work of modern art!!!" .... absurd!!!!
Unfortunately, the part that can be visited is only that of the ground floor and not even in its entirety.
Guided tour is almost compulsory, otherwise you do not understand much of what you see, obviously hoping to happen with the guide we had, prepared must (not only on the Certosa di Padula but also on other similar places of art and not, scattered around Italy), with a way of doing that reminded the television popularizers (sometimes too much).
An unforgivable flaw in my opinion is the fashion, actually found only in Campania in more monuments, to mix in such places even "questionable" exhibitions of contemporary art that have nothing to do with them.
The photo I attach is a sheet of paper that says that in those walls is hidden a plate of gold; seeing it, without any other caption, label or reference, intrigued me as it seemed that the rich Carthusians, for some reason, had really hidden the so-called plate of gold somewhere and so I asked the Guide for lights ... that sheet of paper "is a work of modern art!!!" .... absurd!!!!
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Written 9 August 2024
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MFaro
Italy2,723 contributions
Oct 2023 • Couples
The Padula Charterhouse represents one of the best examples of this kind in all of Italy. Built in Baroque style, it has been considered a UNESCO heritage site for years. Its dimensions are impressive and the visitor is free to move among gardens, cloisters and interior spaces of great beauty. The cost of the ticket, already symbolic in itself, is even cheaper in relation to the experience.
Written 12 June 2024
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Lorenzo C
8 contributions
Aug 2023 • Couples
Scandalously beautiful. Absolutely worth seeing.
A small, scandalously unknown Italian Versailles, forgotten by school books but with a truly unique monumentality and richness.
N.B. check opening days and times and call to be sure because it has strange opening hours and they don't warn on the sites when it's closed.
The guide costs 10 euros more but is very competent. I recommend spending the money on the guided tour.
A small, scandalously unknown Italian Versailles, forgotten by school books but with a truly unique monumentality and richness.
N.B. check opening days and times and call to be sure because it has strange opening hours and they don't warn on the sites when it's closed.
The guide costs 10 euros more but is very competent. I recommend spending the money on the guided tour.
Written 21 August 2023
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Valeria L
545 contributions
Mar 2024 • Couples
It is suggestive to visit the Certosa di San Lorenzo using the audio guide, full of information and history but never boring. The staff is kind. I recommend going to this place when you can dedicate some time to it, a few hours, being able to linger at every corner.
Written 27 March 2024
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Raffaele Pinto
Scanzano Jonico, Italy9 contributions
Jul 2024 • Couples
With my wife, for many years, we had planned a very in-depth visit to the famous Certosa di Padula which is a true masterpiece of architecture and sacred art and houses among other things a beautiful archaeological museum that houses artifacts of the upper Basilicata and the territory of the lower province of Salerno. The structure, in a day of sweltering heat, reserved for us multiple refreshment points for body and spirit: in the sense that, in addition to being able to look at environments and decorations that really made Stendhal Syndrome feel for their rare beauty, you could do all this by staying in a cool and airy place that gave a little 'rest even to limbs tried by African days. The visit is never boring: you pass from the ancient cells of the monks to the common areas, of all sizes, and the neck has its work to do since, from floor to roof, in every room, there are details certainly to be observed carefully and remembered. Few crowds, mostly silences, only just disturbed by the right intemperance of small children who find it unfair not to be able to run and shout along the infinite architectural spaces of the structure, and in general a curiosity that grows as the visit proceeds. A beautiful experience definitely to be repeated with people like me who want to stay away from caciarone tourism, noisy, heavy and mass in which culture is relegated to last place and who find it enriching and stimulating to spend a very long afternoon (or even a whole morning depending on tastes and attitudes) to retrace those same spaces on which the sandals of generations of Carthusians have made the noise of their soles heard.
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Written 29 July 2024
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Francesco Marotta
314 contributions
Aug 2024 • Couples
The first Certosa to be built in Campania, imposing in size (it stands on an area of more than 50,000 square meters) and composed of several rooms summarily grouped in Certosa Bassa and Certosa altra. Unesco World Heritage Site since 1998 with a troubled history: what we see today is the result of over four centuries of construction, dominations, looting and various conflicts. To visit calmly, in addition to the famous Great Cloister much more deserves attention. As with many other similar complexes, some areas are not open to visitors or are not constantly open to the public.
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Written 11 August 2024
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Sandy B
Serezin-du-Rhone, France44 contributions
Jan 2024 • Couples
Following the glowing comments, we took a detour to visit the chartreuse. Very mixed visit: we saw beautiful things but had limited access due to current work: no visit to the monks' cells, just one section of the large accessible cloister, not possible to visit the upstairs or the library. What we could have understood if it had been told to us when purchasing tickets, greatly annoyed and disappointed us when we discovered it during the visit. Otherwise, there is no point visiting the lower house: the videos in Italian with English subtitles are of little interest. For the audio guides of the upper house, they are in Italian, English or German…
Written 24 January 2024
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Sapete se possono accedere anche i cani all'interno del complesso?
Written 30 December 2019
Non saprei ma onestamente non credo
Written 30 December 2019
come prenotare una visita guidata? quanto costa? grazie
Written 22 March 2018
ci siamo aggiunti a un gruppo già esistente. abbiamo pagato 8 euro a persona e la visita è durata circa 2 ore. la domenica c'era il Fai....tra l'altro partecipavano per la prima volta. ma si pagava cmq il biglietto.....però si potevano visitare 2 stanze che nelle visite giornaliere sn sempre chiuse
Written 25 March 2018
Quanto tempo si impiega per visitarla tutta?
Written 5 December 2017
Non meno di due ore. Sarebbe bellissimo soffermarsi su ogni particolare, esterno e interno. Ne vale proprio la pena di spenderci più tempo.
Written 11 December 2017
come posso raggiungere la Certosa con i mezzi pubblico con partenza da Salerno?
Written 6 June 2016
Ciao. Puoi provare con la linea universitaria oppure con le linee che collegano Salerno con il vallo di diano. Dipende dal periodo in cui decidi di visitare la Certosa.
Written 8 June 2016
p m
Piacenza, Italy
Quando la Certosa è chiusa (il martedì) cosa è possibile visitare? Passerò a Padula proprio di martedì e vorrei fermarmi per la visita, ma temo che non ne valga le pena. grazie.
Written 5 June 2015
A Padula sono presenti diverse attrattive turistiche. Vicino la Certosa, a poche centinaia di metri in direzione Sala Consilina, c' è il Battistero Paleocristiano di San Giovani in Fonte, rarità in Italia.
Nel centro del paese, è possibile visitare il Museo del Cognome, il Museo Civico Multimediale, la Casa Museo Joe Petrosino, il percorso Presepiale e presto anche il Museo della Pietra.
Inoltre il centro storico di Padula è una perla di rara bellezza. Di fatti più della metà del paese è caratterizzata dalla vecchia organizzazione urbanistica (vicoli, vicoletti, scale, portici, torri, porte d' ingresso) e affascinanti belvedere.
Padula è famosa anche per le bellezze naturalistiche. A pochi km dal centro abitato, si sviluppa una montagna incontaminata che tocca il punto massimo in corrispondenza del Monte Romito (m. 1381) e della chiesetta sovrastante.
Ultimi ma non per importanza, sono gli scavi archeologici di Cosilinum, antica civitas di Padula, e i santuari di San Sepolcro e San Michele alle Grottelle, tutti alle spalle di Padula.
Written 5 September 2015
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