Recognized in 1998 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Charterhouse of Padula in Cilento (in Southern Italy), also known as the Charterhouse of San Lorenzo, is certainly one of the most beautiful places in Cilento and the province of Salerno, as well as one of the most evocative places in Italy's artistic heritage.

The marvelous Certosa of San Lorenzo, makes the town of Padula the main destination for religious tourism in the province of Salerno, as well as in Campania as well as being among the most striking monuments of Italy's artistic heritage, which is why in 1998 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The architectural style is almost predominantly Baroque, in fact there are very few surviving 14th-century traces. The complex has about 350 rooms and occupies an area of 51,500 m², 15,000 m² of which is taken up by the cloister alone, the largest in the world. Given its vast size, the Charterhouse of San Lorenzo is the largest monastic complex in Europe, second only to the Charterhouse of Grenoble in France.
This Carthusian monastery, the first to be erected in Campania, was founded and built by Thomas of San Severino in 1306 and dedicated to St. Lawrence. It includes three cloisters, a garden, a courtyard and a church.

The architectural layout of the Carthusian Monastery of Padula can be divided into two zones: the first includes the workplaces, while the second includes the monks' residence area.

The structure of the Carthusian monastery, as with all other Carthusian monasteries, follows the Carthusian rule, that is, the rule that working preaches and contemplation. Precisely for this reason there are different places in the Carthusian monastery for their implementation: the cloister, the library, where it is still possible to admire the floor made of Vietrese ceramic tiles, the chapel decorated with precious marbles, the large kitchen, the large wine cellars, the laundries and the neighboring fields where the fruits of the earth were cultivated for the livelihood of the monks.

Despite the fact that in the church, as elsewhere in the Charterhouse of Padula, the many empty spaces testify to the suppression of the Charterhouse by the French in the early 19th century, which caused the dispersal of many artistic treasures, the Charterhouse of Padula is a symbol of great architecture as well as a grandiose past.

Visiting the entire Carthusian Monastery of Padula, thus "Upper House" and "Lower House" takes about 2 hours, without dwelling on the details and visiting the gardens and estates.

• Regular ticket "Upper House": € 6.00 from 25 years old and up

• Reduced ticket "Upper House": € 2.00 from 18 years old to 24 years old

• Regular ticket "High and Low House": € 8.00 from 25 years and up

• Reduced ticket "High and Low House": € 4.00 from 18 years old to 24 years old