Cloister

We stayed in an ex-monastery, with a Moresque cloister, enclosing a pleasant small garden decorated with gorgeous flowers. Our rooms, once monks' cells, were equipped with modern comforts and all had the view on the blue glittering sea...(Friederich Preller 1860)

I saw the cathedral and the streets of Amalfi, I slept in an ancient monastery, the Hotel Luna, and I would have stayed a long time on the terrace looking at the ships' lights shining on the silky sea...(Simone de Beauvoir 1960)

It is one of the oldest cloisters in the Amalfi area, a spectacular example of Moorish architecture that leaves you amazed by the evocative mystic atmosphere that reigns after almost 800 years since its foundation in 1222, by Saint Francis of Assisi.