Palermo (Sicily):  The Cloisters of the Cathedral of Monreale

Amalfi (S Italy):  The "Cloister of Paradise" in the old Norman Cathedral

Above: Fossanova, Cistercian Abbey south of Rome

Right:  Casamari, Cistercian Abbey south of Rome

Rome:  The Major Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura

More to come from Rome

Torri, Tuscany's only remaining Romanesque cloister, located to the west of Siena.

Above: Santa Croce in Florence

Right: San Marco in Florence

The Cistercian Abbey of Chiaravalle della Colomba, near Piacenza

The Carthusian (now Cistercian) Certosa di Pavia

Link to the Via Francigena - the Pilgrims' Road to Rome

Link to the medieval French pilgrimage roads

Link to Spanish roads to Santiago de Compostela

Salamanca:  Convento de Santa Maria de las Dueñas

Salamanca:  Dominican Convent of San Esteban

Toledo:  Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes

Grenada:  Monasterio de San Jeronimo

Andalucia:  Convento de la Rábida

Santiago de Compostela:  Cathedral

Castile:  León Cathedral

Castile:  Basilica de San Isidoro

Burgos (Castile) - Cistercian Royal Abbey & Nunnery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas - Las Claustrillas (above) and the Great Cloister (right)

Castile:  Royal Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos

Aragon (East Spain):  Cistercian Real Monasterio de neustra Señora de Rueda

Navarre:  Cistercian Monastery of Santa Maria de la Oliva

ABOVE:  Catalonia (East Spain) - Cistercian Reial Monestir de Santes Creus

LEFT:  Catalonia (East Spain) - Cistercian Reial Monastir de Santa maria de Poblet

Above - Portugal:  Royal Cistercian Abbey of Alcobaça

Right - Portugal:  Royal Dominican Abbey of Batalha

Central France: Cistercian Abbey of Noirlac

Burgundy (France):  Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

The cloister of the Abbaye St-Pierre de Moissac, S-W France - the oldest cloister of them all

Carthusian Hospital, Monastery of St-Saveur, Villefranche-de-Rouergue

sadly closed from October 1 to June 30 (we went there on October 3!)

Sadly this photographic tour de force is presently only available second hand.  The cloister on the cover is from Lérida in Catalonia, Spain

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RIGHT:  South West France (Languedoc) - Cistercian Abbey of Fontfroide

Still to come:  The Cistercian Abbeys of Valmagne and Senanque

Northern England:  Durham Cathedral

London:  Westminster Abbey

East Central England:  Norwich Cathedral

Even East Anglia is not immune from the wretched foreigner St-Denis carrying his severed head around.

West Central England:  Worcester Cathedral

West Central England: Gloucester Cathedral

South East England:  Canterbury Cathedral

South West England:  Wells Cathedral

Southern England:  Salisbury Cathedral