The Carthusian Monastery of Calci rises in the homonymous village, about 10 kms far from Pisa, settled on the slopes of the Pisan hills in a level area called Val Graziosa.

The Carthusian Monastery was found in 1366 for want of the archbishop of Pisa Francesco Moricotti. It kept hosting the Carthusian order until 1972 even though it had already been passed to the State due to the Napoleonic laws (1808).

The following enlargements and renovations gave to the Carthusian Monastery the current graceful seventeenth-century shapes. The church with the seventeenth-century interiors, the Grand-ducal guestrooms once reserved to the kings of Tuscany, the refectory with the fresco painting Ultima cena by Bernardino Poccetti (1597), the library, the prior's apartment, the chemist's shop, and the plumbing partly still working are worth seeing.

Opening hours:

from Tuesday to Sunday from 8:30 to 18:30; Sundays and holidays from 8:30 to 12:30 (closed on Mondays, 1st of January, 1st of May, 25th of December)

Place: Via Roma, 79, Calci

Telephone contacts: +39 050 938430