Churches in Zannone
Zannone, Ponza
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Churches in Zannone is a guided walking tour of the abandoned medieval and Renaissance religious sites on Zannone, the uninhabited island within the Ponza archipelago. The tour covers the ruins of the 13th-century Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria and the adjacent chapel of San Silverio, set among macchia scrub and wild goats. It offers a rare look at monastic life on a protected island that is now part of the Circeo National Park.
What to expect
- Tour lasts 2 hours and includes a short boat transfer from Ponza to Zannone's only landing pier
- Visitors walk a 1.5-kilometre dirt path to the abbey ruins, with stone walls and a surviving bell gable
- The guide explains the abbey's role as a grain and wine producer for the Cistercian order until its abandonment in the 1600s
- You see the roofless nave, the cloister foundations, and the carved marble altar fragment in the chapel
- Suitable for hikers with moderate fitness; the path has uneven stones and a 60-metre elevation gain
- The tour includes a 20-minute free period to photograph the coastline and observe the island's feral goats
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