Abbazia di Leno, Leno
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The Abbey of Leno, or Badia leonense, was an ancient Benedictine monastic complex founded in 758 by the Lombard king Desiderius in the territory of the present-day town of Leno, in the Lower Brescian region. Tear down at the behest of the Venetian Republic in 1783, today only stone fragments remain of the ancient abbey, largely preserved in the Brescia museum of Santa Giulia, while burial mounds were found on site thanks to archaeological excavations held in 2003 by the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Lombardy.
Coordinates: 45°22'3"N, 10°13'17"E
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