We go to Switzerland and then to the enchanting Valley Monastery (Val Müstair) which is a secluded little world, beyond the Ofen Pass near the Italian border.
Val Monastero (Romansch Müstair Val), which is a valley of the Grisons and Alto Adige is peculiar from the point of view of language that is spoken in the valley in addition to German and Italian also Romansch, a language of origin not clearly derived from the Nets and Celts dl,
For this pleasant valley went Charlemagne during his trip to Rome, where he received his coronation.
Precisely for this reason of great importance to the Benedictine Abbey of St. John located a few hundred meters from the border between Italy and Switzerland.
This is one of the few Carolingian buildings that are maintained with good integrity and in the perimeter walls and apses and in the pictorial frieze inside
The monastery church in particular dates back to 775 and boasts the largest fresco cycle world, painted around 800 during the High Middle Ages: a jewel of figurative art of the Carolingian period. The sequence diagram shows, inter alia, the beheading of John the Baptist. The abbey, which is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage List was founded around 780 and in 1167 was turned into a nunnery. During the restoration of the twentieth century were unearthed frescoes from the Romanesque period, dating to 1160.
Carolingian frescoes depicting stories from the Old and New Testament, painted towards the 830, unfortunately, badly damaged and judged only as a whole. One of the most memorable scenes is still intact Healing hemorrhage. On the counter
addition, we report one of the first representations the "Last Judgement".
illustration shows a significant part of the Carolingian frescos and a statue of Charlemagne. 
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