Frauenwoerth Abbey was founded in 772 by Tassilo III of Bavaria and is located on the second largest of the three islands in Chiemsee. It has a charming garden containing ... read more
The Franciscan Monastery in Kadaň dates back to the 15th century and is today housing the Municipal Museum of Kadaň with an exposition of life in a monastery. Around ... read more
Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Water Garden: The site, today property of the National Trust, is built around the ruins of a Cistercian abbey, transforming the wild a ... read more
Festenburg Castle, originally a military fortress, has been in the possession of Vorau Abbey since 1616. It got its present outlook in 1700, when it was rebuilt. The ... read more
The Majk Camaldolese Hermitage is a building, complex originally used by the Camaldolese order, constructed in the 18th century by Count József Esterházy. The ... read more
Drübeck Monastery dates back to 877 and is today a centre of spiritual and cultural inspiration, including concerts and exhibitions. read more
Drents Museum, established in 1854 and located on the site of a former nunnery dating back to 1259, is dedicated to Drenthe’s history, from prehistoric times to the ... read more
Delapre Abbey dates back to the 12th century when it was a nunnery of the Cluniac order. After 1535 the Abbey became a country estate under the Tates and Bouveries ... read more
The Dante Museum is dedicated to the famous poet and politician Dante Alighieri (c. 1265 – 1321) and his life in Ravenna, where he spent his last years, being ... read more
The Czech Police Museum objectively documents and presents the history, development and operation of security forces in the former Czechoslovakia since its inception to ... read more
Clairvaux Abbey dates back to the 12th century and is the former monastery of St Bernard, founder of the Cistercian Order, an austerely reformed branche from the ... read more
Certosa di Pontignano is a former Carthusian monastery, dating back to 1343, and now owned by the University of Sienna. It is used for stays, as conference location ... read more
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporano is since 1997 located in a former monastery and brick factory, the Cartuja Monastery. The Centre focuses in particular on the history ... read more
Centraal Museum, founded in 1838 and located in the former medieval monastery at the Nicolaaskerkhof, features a wide-ranging collection of art works by, for a ... read more
Schloss Gloggnitz, a former Benedictine abbey dating back to 1094, was dissolved in 1803 and has changed hands several times thereafter. The first private owner was ... read more
Buckland Abbey dates from 1278 as a Cistercian abbey and was afterwards the home of Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, whose collateral descendants lived there ... read more
Bruxella 1238 are the remains of a Franciscan monastery, built in 1238, which played an important role in the city’s social and religious life. It contains the tomb ... read more
Bishop's House Garden is part of the Old Bishops Palace, which was completed in 1860. In 1959 the new palace was built, whereas the Old Palace came to be used by ... read more
The Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio, located at the complex of the former Cloisters of Sant’Eustorgio, is the product of a number of restorations carried out throughout ... read more
Augustinial Monastery Herrenchiemsee (Old Palace), today a museum and art gallery complex, is a former Augustine monastery, coverted by Ludwig II as a palace, where could ... read more