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“I asked my guide where exactly where are they
buried. “You’re standing on them,” she said in a
serious tone. Then she smiled and walked on. ”
A
short drive away through pristine countryside is the
remote, narrow valley named St. John the Baptist
to the remains of the Zice Charterhouse. There’s
spiritual quality to this locale that perhaps explains why it
was chosen by a fiercely spiritual order, Zice Carthusians,
as its home some 850 years ago. The brothers closed up
shop in the 18th century, but their presence lives on in their
The restored ruins of the Charterhouse of the fiercely
spiritual order, Zice Carthusians.
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