This project involved the relocation of the monastery’s kitchen to its original site near the medieval Refectory. The old kitchen, situated on the first floor of the South Wing, had been a significant fire hazard.

The new kitchen is contained within a steel frame and equipped with a fire-extinguishing system and fireproof steel doors, as well as new sewage, plumbing and electrical connections. The old foundations were consolidated and historical elements were retained where possible. The wooden frame of the old floors was repaired. The floors themselves had to be reconstructed, together with the ceilings, staircases, windows and wooden and marble window sills.

View of the kitchen during construction (2002). The new structure adjoins, but does not jeopardize, the monastery's sixth-century wall.