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The city is best known for its abbey built in 1004 on the ruins of a villa that once belonged to Cicero. The founders, Greek monks, are at the origin of the Byzantine rites practiced in this Catholic church. The Monastero Esarchico di Santa Maria di Grottaferrata is the last of the many Byzantine monasteries in southern Italy. The abbey is a unique case in the Catholic religion: founded before the schism, which led to the separation between Catholics and Orthodox, it has always remained in communion with the Church of Rome while preserving the Byzantine rite and the Eastern monastic tradition of its origins.
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