Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
Dürnstein Abbey in the Wachau looks best 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 does not offer many sights, but those that are are worth a visit. They bear witness to the great past of the place.
Mechelen in Belgium impresses with its Renaissance and Gothic architecture in the old town. The town's beguinages, along with the Sint Rombouts Cathedral, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Mechelen. Here we present the buildings that we discovered on our tour:
The expanse, the smell of salt in the lake, the fresh breeze that almost always blows there, and the harsh character of the surroundings lure to Stralsund. It is a place whose center still lives from the charm of its past. In the World Heritage City you can still feel the influence of the Hanseatic League and its merchants.
It takes just under an hour's drive to reach Kloster Lehnin from Berlin. Still, it means immersing yourself in another world. Far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, the monastery offers a place of silence.
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, a real gem of baroque architecture. No wonder, really, as Dominikus Zimmermann - one of the "star architects" of the Baroque era - was the builder of the church, so [...]
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 stormed immediately after its release[…]
Anyone traveling in the central Upper Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate will hardly be able to avoid some of the oldest cities in Germany. Its historical cultural assets are shaped by hundreds of years of history and still fascinate people today as they did in the past.
We enjoyed a break at Stams Monastery in Tyrol. There are few places where you can relax as easily as in a monastery. Monasteries are ideal places to withdraw from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. This is relaxation for body and soul!
Melk Abbey in Austria is one of the baroque monasteries on the Danube in the Wachau. It is now part of Austria's UNESCO World Heritage Site. If you approach Melk Abbey from the Danube or via the autobahn from the north, it towers like a stronghold over the place that bears the name of the monastery.
Let yourself be kidnapped in three monasteries in Austria. We visit St. Lambrecht Abbey in Styria, the Sisters of Mary of Karmel in Bad Mühllacken and Bad Kreuzen in Upper Austria.
