Monte del Re

Dozza ~ Imola

Monte del Re was established in the thirteenth century and lasted for over five hundred years.
It was certainly due to the mystical atmosphere which dwelt in it that someone called Monte del Re “The hill of Paradise”, as Pope Clement IV, in a document of 1266, had already called the hill of Assisi.
Unfortunately, we do not know the exact year the Monastery was founded, because the archives have disappeared, undoubtedly during the Napoleonic era when monastic orders were suppressed. The Monastery certainly existed at the beginning of the 1250s. Historical research leads us to think it was built immediately after the visit by Saint Francis of Assisi to Imola, around 1213.