The gardens of most monasteries were surrounded by cloistered walks and had a well or fountain at the center, possibly inspired by Persian gardens, which was intended to enhance meditation.

大多数的修道院庭院都有围廊式步道环绕，在中心有一口井或者一眼泉，也许为的是营造一种利于冥想的环境吧，这种做法很有可能是从波斯园林那里获得的灵感。

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The Vatican has already picked out the pope's future home: A four-story building attached to a monastery on the northern edge of the Vatican gardens where cloistered nuns used to live.

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His absence also gave workers time to finish up renovations on the monastery on the edge of the Vatican gardens that until last year housed groups of cloistered nuns who were invited for a few years at a time to live inside the Vatican to pray for the pontiff and church at large.

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