San Daniele Monastery

The panorama

A panoramic loggia allows the view on the villa’s façade, that at Bonomi’s time was surrounded by a beautiful Italian garden. As the nuns arrived, the park was turned into a vegetable garden. Today the park has many essences and features a panorama on the thermal cities of Abano and Montegrotto. You can stop over in the loggia, in the shade, and take some photos and admire the landscape spreading below you.

The Museum

The Monastery and the part used as museum are on the right side of the church. In the low ground some rooms can be visited; these show the changes made by the Bonomi family to make the building a summer house, with reception rooms, living rooms, dining rooms and ballrooms. Among the rooms that can be visited, we can mention the Stucco Room (12), featuring the original entrance with a Murano glass door and the 16th century floor with geometrical terracotta and stone drawings. Stuccos are from the 18th century as well as the ceiling, the fireplace and the mirror.

The Yellow Room, the Red Room and the Green Room are beautiful; the names are due to the color of the wallpaper, and they feature wonderful coffered ceilings with massive oak girders and floors with geometrical drawings. Yellow Room (14) used as a living room Red Room (15/16) it was the dining room of the Bonomi counts.

The walk

From Abano you can easily reach the Monastery by foot. Crossing the tangenziale Ovest road is made easier by roundabouts and pedestrian crossings, which are then replaced by a spacious bicycle path along the foot of the Hill; its slope represents the only “difficulty” here; but it gets eased by the shadow of trees that act as a shield from noise: it’s absolute peace.

Abano.it warmly thanks the monk community, especially Sister Maria Chiara for the hospitality and the information, thanks to which we could write this page.