One of the best-known Abbeys in the world, Abbazia di Montecassino lies perched on a mountaintop and is home to an ornate cathedral, an elegant Renaissance cloister and an insightful museum, home to magnificent paintings, manuscripts and ancient books. Thousands of pilgrims and visitors from all over the world cross this threshold every day. They silently cross the cloisters and then climb the grand staircase to the Basilica, to the tomb of San Benedetto and Santa Scolastica. Then there is the crypt, below, to be discovered with the stupendous golden mosaics.