Medieval cloister with well at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria a Mare, San Nicola Island – Tremiti Islands, Apulia

Cloister of the Sanctuary of Santa Maria a Mare on the island of San Nicola (Tremiti Islands), with stone arched porticoes and a central well dating back to the Benedictine era. Built by the Benedictines in the 11th century and enlarged by the Lateran Canons, it preserves a well decorated with legendary symbols of the Tremiti Islands. Once the center of monastic life, it served the refectory and the underground cistern, a testament to medieval hydraulic engineering.

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