5-Suite restored 15th Century Franciscan monastery for private stays, Elaphiti Islands, Croatia

2021/03/08

5-Suite restored 15th Century Franciscan monastery for private stays, Elaphiti Islands, Croatia

LOPUD 1483 is a restored Franciscan monastery that has been overlooking the Elaphiti Islands and Croatia’s Dalmatian coast for centuries. Five-suite, 15th century monastery is available to rent exclusively for private stays and events. Enjoying the island’s slower pace of life, also bringing contemporary art to this quiet corner of the Adriatic nearby

With no cars permitted on the island, Lopud’s natural environment has remained unspoilt and the island’s quiet villages and historic ruins make for an interesting day of exploration

Near LOPUD 1483, there is a room-sized installation,Your black horizon, is a comprising a thin horizontal line of light that emerges from a narrow gap in the black walls at eye level. Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

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In a 25-year restoration project, one of Europe’s most influential art-world figures has transformed medieval Croatian monastery Lopud 1483 into a contemporary space for recharging. Take it over as a contemplative island escape of your own.

---- Condé Nast Traveler

“It was a total ruin,” she says. “Most of the ceilings and roofs were missing. But it was amazing too. Despite the damage I felt this extraordinary sense of peace. I don’t want to sound like an old hippie, but there really was some incredibly powerful energy here.”

---- FINANCIAL TIMES

Franciscan monks used many medicinal plants in their practices, and the garden has been restored to reflect that. Now, guests can explore the garden and its 80 different species of plants.

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This enchanting place is the masterwork of art collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, adorned with heirloom pieces, Renaissance furniture and museum-worthy art – not to mention the extensive medicinal herb garden. This is a place with a very special energy, an oasis of monastic calm, cloaked in the kind of magic that only holy islands emanate.

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Your black horizon Art Pavilion is an interdisciplinary project by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect David Adjaye, commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, in which the fields of art and architecture are merged into an “interlocking equation”, wherein ephemeral visual appearance and architectural formulations exist simultaneously. Inaugurated in June 2005 as an official project at the 51st Bienniale di Venezia, the pavilion has moved to the island of Lopud.

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5-Suite restored 15th Century Franciscan monastery for private stays, Elaphiti Islands, Croatia

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