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View of the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore from the bell tower
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The San Giorgio Monastery (St. George Monastery) is a Benedictine monastery in Venice, Italy, located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. It stands next to the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, which serves the monastic community. Most of the old monastic buildings currently serve as headquarters of the Cini Foundation.

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San Giorgio Monastery

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The San Giorgio Monastery (St. George Monastery) is a Benedictine monastery in Venice, Italy, located on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. It stands...

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San Giorgio Maggiore

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George; thus it was designated as San Giorgio Maggiore to be distinguished from San Giorgio in Alga. The San Giorgio Monastery was established in 982, when...

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San Giorgio

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di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, a confraternity house in Venice Other buildings with the name: San Giorgio Monastery, Venice Palazzo San Giorgio, Genoa...

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The Wedding at Cana

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decorate the far wall of the monastery's new refectory, designed by the architect Andrea Palladio, at the San Giorgio Monastery, on the eponymous island....

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Pope Pius VII

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elect his successor met on 30 November 1799 in the Benedictine San Giorgio Monastery in Venice. There were three main candidates, two of whom proved...

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San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk

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than one version. It forms part of a series of views of the monastery-island of San Giorgio Maggiore. This series is in turn part of a larger series of...

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The New Pope

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opening sequence of the series with dancing nuns was filmed inside San Giorgio Monastery in Venice. The series had its world premiere on 1 September 2019...

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San Servolo

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San Servolo ['sɛrvolo] is an Italian island in the Venetian Lagoon, to the southeast of San Giorgio Maggiore. Earlier housing a monastery of Benedictine...

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Cini Foundation

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of Giorgio Cini, his son who died in a airplane accident near Cannes in August 1949. The Foundation is located in the former San Giorgio Monastery on...

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1799

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VIII. November 30 – 1799–1800 Papal conclave opens in Venice at San Giorgio Monastery. December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian...

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San Giorgio in Alga

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San Giorgio in Alga (English: "St. George in the seaweed") is an island of the Venetian lagoon, northern Italy, lying between the Giudecca and Fusina...

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John Morosini

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Doge, Tribuno Memmo, that the island of San Giorgio Maggiore be granted to him for the establishment of a monastery there. Memmo granted his request and...

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San Giorgio in Velabro

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San Giorgio in Velabro is a church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to St. George. The church is located next to the Arch of Janus in the rione of Ripa in the...

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List of abbeys and priories

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Klausen Sacra di San Michele, Val di Susa Sacro Convento, Assisi San Clemente Abbey, Castiglione a Casauria San Giorgio Monastery, Venice San Giovanni degli...

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List of papal conclaves

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The 1799–1800 papal conclave was held in San Giorgio Monastery in Venice, the last papal election site outside of Rome....

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Michelozzo

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patron. Vasari also claimed that Michelozzo built the library of San Giorgio Monastery in 1434 for Cosimo, though this claim contradicts the original description...

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Andrea Palladio

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the San Giorgio Monastery (1560–1562). His style was rather severe compared with the traditional lavishness of Venetian Renaissance architecture. San Georgio...

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San Giorgio Morgeto

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San Giorgio Morgeto (Calabrian: San Giorgiu Morgetu or simply San Giorgi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian...

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History of San Giorgio su Legnano

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The earliest documented trace of the history of San Giorgio su Legnano, a municipality in the province of Milan in the Altomilanese, refers to an inscription...

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Canons Regular of San Giorgio in Alga

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The Canons Regular of San Giorgio in Alga (Congregatio Canonicorum Sancti Georgii in Alga Venetiarum) were a congregation of canons regular which was...

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San Giorgio a Cremano

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San Giorgio a Cremano is a primarily residential town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy. It is located on the foothills of Mount...

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