Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
The Pallottiner Schlössl in Salzburg is a real insider tip. We are here to learn more about monastic fasting in Austria. Fasting in the monastery with the Pallottines means experiencing nature and the city from an extraordinary perspective.
Two days of detox in the monastery - that's what we wanted to try out during our stay at the Kneipp Kurhaus in Bad Mühllacken. In Bad Mühllacken this is done with the methods of Traditional European Medicine (TEM). Hildegard von Bingen and Pastor Kneipp are just some of the founders of these healing methods.
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!
Discover Stift Rein and Maria Straßengel, two excursion destinations in Styria, the history of which goes back to the 12th century. Rein Monastery is the oldest Cistercian monastery in the world and has been inhabited since it was founded. A visit to the abbey and the pilgrimage church Maria Straßengel gives you an insight into the beginnings of Styria.
The monasteries on the Danube in Austria fascinated us in a very special way. Whether it is the gold-decorated altars, the artistic ceiling frescoes or the majestic monastery churches - a monastery on the Danube in Austria is a true masterpiece of human creativity.
Enjoyment of art and a lot of history awaited us on the Romanesque Road in Saxony-Anhalt. There are six churches from the Romanesque period between Havelberg and Jerichow Monastery. That makes a trip to the Elb-Havel-Winkel a tour for art lovers.
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.
Göttweig Abbey in the Wachau can be seen from afar. It sits enthroned on a hill above the town of Furth near Krems on the southern foothills of the Dunkelsteinerwald in Lower Austria. The monastery goes back to the year 1083, when Bishop Altmann von Passau had a canon monastery built.
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.
Heiligenkreuz Abbey and Mayerling Castle Tour for connoisseurs and hikers. It leads you to the most beautiful places in the Vienna Woods. Enjoy monastic silence, splendid art and architecture and gastronomy in Heiligenkreuz Abbey and hike through the Vienna Woods on the Via Sacra.
