Churches Monasteries Cathedrals
Visit churches, monasteries, cathedrals on your travels. The art of the stonemasons of past centuries is impressive. Discover cathedrals that are world famous. Village churches are also interesting. Some of them hold treasures that surprise. Monasteries are also worth seeing. In it you can understand the everyday life of the monks. Here you will find monastery ruins, but also monasteries that are still active today.
Lehnin Monastery – a weekend in the monastery
We like to visit monasteries on our travels through Europe. After studying art history for a few semesters, I am very fascinated by the architecture and history of monasteries. The entrance to Lehnin Monastery is easy to miss, however. There is no sign pointing to it. I am talking about the actual monastery here, not the place called Lehnin Monastery. We were almost...
Street of the Romanesque of Havelberg to the monastery Jerichow - 2 days
Romanesque Road Travel destinations in Saxony-Anhalt Art enjoyment and a lot of history awaited us on the Romanesque Road in Saxony-Anhalt. Between Havelberg and Jerichow Monastery there are six churches from the Romanesque period. We visited four of them. This makes our trip to the Elbe-Havel corner a pleasure...
Lilienfeld Abbey - Abbey Library, Monastery & Gallery
Lilienfeld Abbey in Lower Austria The Lilienfeld Abbey in the Mostviertel with its library, monastery and gallery promises a surprising visit. Surprised? Why? We experience a break in a monastery that transports us to another time. The monastery in Lower Austria goes back to the year 1202. Cistercians from Heiligenkreuz were the ...
Lilienfeld Abbey Hiking - Muckenkogel & Klosteralm
Hiking at Stift Lilienfeld on the Muckenkogel We went hiking at Stift Lilienfeld in the Mostviertel. The area around the Cistercian monastery is ideal for a holiday in Austria with hiking for connoisseurs. During a walk through the monastery park and a hike on the Muckenkogel to the Klosteralm, we visit the area around the Cistercian monastery ...
Dürnstein Wachau: Your guide to the city on the Danube
(Advertisement due to press trip) Dürnstein Abbey in the Wachau looks most beautiful from the Danube. You can see the blue tower of the collegiate church below the castle from afar, if you approach the place by ship. The place itself doesn't offer many sights, but those that are are worth a visit...
Discover UNESCO World Heritage in Mechelen
UNESCO World Heritage in Mechelen Belgium The UNESCO World Heritage in Mechelen Belgium thwarted our travel plans. We had planned to deal with the cuisine of Flanders in Mechelen. But it turns out differently than so often on our travels. On site, a topic forced itself upon us that we ...
Stralsund Sights - Hanseatic City and UNESCO World Heritage Site
Stralsund sights - worth more than a detour We have long wondered which Stralsund sights are worth visiting. Admittedly, we always drove past Stralsund on our first visits to the Baltic Sea. But not without taking a look at the city with its three church towers. These tower above ...
St. Peter in Bad Waldsee
The Baroque Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Bad Waldsee On our city tour through Bad Waldsee in Upper Swabia on the edge of the Allgäu, we discover the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Bad Waldsee today, a true gem of baroque architecture. No wonder, after all, Dominikus Zimmermann was - one of the "star architects" of the Baroque - ...
Cistercian Monastery Heiligenkreuz
Day trip to the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz The monks from the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in the Vienna Woods are known primarily for the sensational success of their choir. They celebrated this with their Gregorian chants in both the Classic Charts and the Pop Charts. The CD Chant – Music for Paradise alone...
The Rheinische Kaiserdome - excursion destinations with historical depth
Join us on a journey to the Rheinische Kaiserdomen, a true architectural wonder in the heart of the Rhineland. The Kaiserdome are three of the oldest and most important churches in Germany and are often referred to as the crown jewels of German Romanesque. The Imperial and Mariendom in Speyer, the Cathedral of St. Peter in Worms and ...
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