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Abbazia di Santa Maria di Rambona

Pollenza

Pollenza
Contrada Rambona 18
Sito web

http://www.pro-rambona.it/

Along the Potenza valley there are the restored and partly tampered remains of the Abbey of Rambona. To be exact, Santa Maria di Rambona in the municipality of Pollenza, an ancient village in the Macerata area that lives quietly on the nearby hill. It was founded by the Benedictine monks who lived nearby in a laborious Cenobio-Convent, of which there is no longer a trace.The construction of the Abbey of Rambona took place in the ninth century at the behest of Queen Ageltrude, apparently on the remains of a pagan temple dedicated to the goddess Bona.To this Goddess, pure daughter of a king of Lazio named Faun, adored for her integerrima chastity, the Romans had dedicated various temples; and on the remains of one of these, probably demolished by the barbarian hordes, the hardworking monks built the Abbey, only for worship, without an adjoining convent or dwelling for custody. The name Aradeae Bonae - Ara Bona, soon became Rambona.