Ninth Stage

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The sacristy is a beautiful quadrangular room with a rib vaulted ceiling whose ribs rises from the walls and meet in the middle. A door, opened from the outside, provided access to the victuals, such as water, meat, vegetables, and so on.  The room also features a small grated window. The food was cooked by the monks themselves, who also worked as farmers, vintners, beekeepers, shepherds, and so on, fulfilling every task required for the running of the monastery and for receiving pilgrims.

Let us now enter the chapel, once the monks’ refectory.