Cities of Austria: Minle
Near Western entrance to Vahau valleys lies the city Melk (Melk), famous for his monastery, considered the most exciting sample of Baroque style in Austria.
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Based as a Roman border post, later turned to Babenberg into the fortress (x in.), in 1089, the town along with a small abbey (976 g.) was transferred to the Benedictine Order. The monastery built on a high rock imagined many elements of the designs of earlier buildings, but was destroyed by fire during the Turkish invasion of 1683, and the modern complex of the monastery was most erected in the first half of the XVIII century.
- Abbey in melk
- Library in the monastery
- Painting the ceiling in the marble hall
It is this monastery that the events of the famous novel Umberto Eco unfolded "Rose name". And it was he who almost became the very place in the history of the rebellion church – an ambitious Abbot of Minza Bertold Ditmayer collided with the confrontation of his own monks, alarmed by the insult of their asceticism with a beautiful and friction project of a new complex.
Abbey continues to function today, and its school in which approximately 700 children learn is one of the most prestigious academic institutions of Austria. At the same time, the monastery itself, considered to be a masterpiece of the Austrian Baroque, and its museum attend to one and a half million tourists annually.
Reviews and studies of trips
Memorial Places of our Warriors in Europe. Wroclaw, Vienna, Minle and damn bridge in the Swiss Alps
I did not have the goal to attend memorial cemeteries and burials to the Soviet and our soldiers in the process of travel, although initially one place was on. Read more →
gessor | Autumn 2014
Vahau Valley
Vakhau Valley is the perfect version of the trip from Vienna for one day. Moreover, now on Westbahnhof in Vienna, you can buy the so-called "Combined ticket". Read more →
Gamzatti | September 2011
Two trips to Vienna
It so happened that this year we visited Vienna twice. This city really like this, as, however, all Austria. Following these two trips, I want to share your stay on the shores of the Danube. Read more →
