The Hermitage of Santo Spirito
It’s ten kilometres to the Hermitage of Santo Spirito from Roccamorice. The road takes us from the airy green foothills of the Maiella and plunges us deep under the leafy archways of an oak and beech forest. Sunlight filters through the upper branches and spangles the road as we drive along. The road ends in an open space and there, backed onto a rocky outcrop, is the Hermitage. Oh for the contemplative life. No wonder the poet Petrarca mentioned this place in his De Vita Solitaria as being conducive to asceticism. Even the most arid soul must surely be nourished by such beauty and silence – silence, that is,...
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