Vacation in the monastery: 10 addresses to try (when we can)

We do not yet know when we will be able to return to travel, but one thing is certain: we will look for places away from the crowds, where you can gradually regain confidence with the world, stay in contact with nature to regenerate. They offer all this and more monasteries, convents, abbeys which, among the most beautiful places in Italy, welcome faithful eager to try the experience of a spiritual retreat but also non-believers in search of silence to find themselves.

In the gallery above you will find ten of these structures, but also villas and old farmhouses managed by the Church, where you can spend a weekend or an entire holiday in the name of peace and beauty, resting, walking and – if you like – praying.

These are some of the thousands of structures grouped by Religious Hospitality, a non-profit that on its portal – www.ospitalitareligiosa.it – ​​offers support to religious and lay people who wish to try this slow but decidedly intense experience, and which also serves do good given that, in most cases, the proceeds from hospitality go to charitable projects.

Now on the portal there is also a page –ospitalitareligiosa.it/offerte-speciali/vacanza-etica – in which to search, divided by regions, the «Factories of Good “: a selection of 70 addresses from the Alps to Sicily where you can spend an “ethical holiday” who have also chosen to tell where their funds go. They allocate part of the revenues from tourist hospitality to charitable projects such as soup kitchens or lodgings for fixed abodes, welfare for non self-sufficient people such as the elderly and disabled, social such as the reintegration of former prisoners and drug addicts, but also environmental protection projects.

Just click on the map to know the name of the facility and what it does, then enter the relevant page to book if necessary. In the gallery above 10 structures to begin with, selected with Religious Hospitality among all those present on the portal. Browse the gallery

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