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Just south of the town of Este stands the abbey complex of Santa Maria delle Carceri, one of the most important in the Veneto. The compact mass of the monastery and the church once stood to dominate a stretch of plain considered strategic in the Middle Ages, located as it was between the ancient dominions of the Marquises of Este and the lands governed by the Bishop of Padua. Watch all the episodes on the Imago Ecclesiae website → https://www.telepace.it/programmi/ima... Telepace live → https://www.telepace.it/diretta