Monte Senario

Monte Senario

Location within Tuscany
Monastery information
Other names	Santuario di Montesenario Convento di Montesenario
Order	Servite
Established	circa 1245
Architecture
Status	Minor basilica
Site
Location	Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy
Coordinates	43°53′43″N11°20′01″E / 43.8953°N 11.3335°E / 43.8953; 11.3335
Public access	exterior
Website	montesenariosacroeremo.eu

Monte Senario is a Servite monastery in the comune of Vaglia, near Florence in Tuscany, in central Italy. ^[1] It stands on the mountain of the same name, on the watershed between the Valdarno to the south and the Mugello to the north. It was established in 1245 by the seven founding members of the Servite order ^{[2] : 153} and was the first Servite monastery.

The stairs to the monastery

References

1. Santuario di Montesenario (in Italian). Database: I Luoghi della Fede. Florence: Regione Toscana. Archived 1 May 2016.
2. Rick Scorza (2011). The Iconography of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio’s Altarino. Metropolitan Museum Journal46 (1): 153–160. doi:10.1086/668457 (subscription required)