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After the Arab Invasions, the island of Lipari remained uninhabited and when the Normans settled there they found only a few villages of Greek speaking inhabitants. In 1083, Count Roger I asked to the Benedictine monks to move to Lipari and build a monastery near the castle . The Abbot Ambrogio, head of the monks, directed the construction of the Norman cloister which was completed around 1131 in the reign of Roger II, in line with the Clunian Benedictine model. On the original plan, the church faced north and the cloister south, near the monastery. |
