situated about halfway between Austria's two most famous cities. The abbey and the library are the best sights in the town, ...

Ancient monasteries in deepest provincial Austria do not normally feature on the bucket lists of the TikTok generation. Nor do libraries. But the Admont abbey library in the small Styrian town ...

ADMONT, Austria — Ancient monasteries in deepest provincial Austria do not normally feature on the bucket lists of the TikTok generation. Nor do libraries. But the Admont abbey library in the ...

Peter's Abbey was founded in 696 ... It includes St. Peter's Church, Friedhof St. Peter (a cemetery), the oldest library in Austria and the oldest restaurant in central Europe.

This library could give Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel a run for its money with its beauty – and won't require a two-hour wait in the Vatican's queues either. Admont Abbey in Austria is said to ...

Around 100,000 books dating back to the year 900 and the many rooms are being restored at Austria’s historic Melk Abbey’s Library. Restoration work has begun in an Austrian library containing ...

you may be surprised to know there is a real-life version of this elaborate book haven in Austria. Known as the Admont Abbey, it is the oldest, not to mention most beautiful, monastic library in ...

In each, Listri’s poised images capture the library’s unique atmosphere ... turbulent or controversial pasts – like Altenburg Abbey in Austria, an outpost of imperial Catholicism repeatedly ...

A benedictine abbey in Kremsmünster, Austria, a town of just over 6,000 people, has been shaken from its relative calm as its clergy deals with an ongoing investigation into a slew of historic ...