Abbey of Thelema

The ruins of Aleister Crowley’s abbey at Cefalù are as described in Chapter Twenty-Eight, right down to “somebody’s Basquiat-like graffito rendition of Crowley’s big bald head”(pictured) that stares down menacingly behind Adelina in the photo shoot.

The abbey’s dissolution under Mussolini is historically accurate.

An unauthorized walk-through, whose trespassing guides are quite as interesting as the abbey, can be seen here.