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HISTORY OF SAN GIOVANNI IN FIORE From Wikipedia – “In 1189, Gioacchino da Fiore founded his abbey outside today’s town center in what is called the Fiore Vètere neighborhood. Several years later in 1194, the Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI of the Hohenstaufen family granted the abbot a vast plot of land corresponding to SanContinue reading “A visit to an ancestral home – San Giovanni in Fiore (part 2) Abbazia Florense”