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Cloister
This cloister (12th c.) embodies the Cistercian search for silence and order. Its plain arches and rhythmic stone arcades frame a space for meditation and communal passage, linking dormitory, church, and refectory. The simplicity rejects ornament to focus monks on inner devotion, making architecture itself a discipline of the soul.
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