Holiday Home - The Monastery of S. Maria della Purità

Holiday Home - The Monastery of S. Maria della Purità
The Monastery of S. Maria della Purità is the Spiritual and Meeting Centre, for religious tourism, near to the Santo Bambino di Praga Sanctuary, it's been built since XII centuries and is located in the Centre of Pagani (SA)


Pagani, City of S. Alfonso M. De' Liguori, is situated to the slopes of the Mounts Lattari (Valico di Chiunzi), a few kilometres from Naples and Salerno.


Its position is the ideal for excursions to both gulfs of Naples and Salerno's: Capri, Ischia, Sorrento, Pompei, Ercolano, Vesuvio, Amalfitana Coast, Ravello, Paestum, Pozzuoli, Cuma, Caserta (Reggia Vanvitelliana), Cava dei Tirreni (Abbey Cen.XI), Salerno (Dome Cen.XII), Nocera Superiore (Battistero Paleocristiano), Padula (Certosa Cen.X), Montevergine and S. Gerardo's Sanctuary.


Atmosphere of the house is very charming and is accompanied of a delicious and healthy food, simple and genuine.

Monaster "Santa Maria della Purità" outside  

Activities: Spiritual meeting, training and vocational guidance, accommodation for pilgrims, conference, convention, lectures, campus, holidays, school trip, student's hostel for students, priests.


Opening: all year long


Type of guest: Individual, families, groups religious and laymen and laywomen.


Accommodation: 70 beds divided into 6 single rooms, 20 double rooms and 8 multiple ones each with toilette inside.


Facilities: Chapel, Cloister, two meeting rooms and conference rooms equipment of Hi-Fi, audio and video system, rich library of films heating, park, parking, optional restaurant service. First sanitary assistance, free time activity.


Festivities: Child Jesus of Praga, the second Sunday of September, Carmine's Virgin Mary the second Sunday of Easter, Saint Alfonso dé Liguori, the first of August. Christmas feast: Classic Neapolitan crib (open from Christmas to 2nd of February), stamps on Christmas time , showroom on world crib.


Local kitchen: Tagliatelle e fusilli with meat sauce, pennette all'arrabbiata, farfalle impazzite, linguine alla monastica, linguine agli scampi, pasta della Casa with shrimp and rocket, pennette with rocket and Corbara's tomatoes, roast artichoke, aubergine and pumpkin embers, courgette scapece, polpette di melanzana, fried green chili pepper: products of our "Campania Felix".


Local spirits or Liqueur: Nocino and Limoncello


Local cakes or sweets: Babà and Sfogliatella