The most famous of these gave the monastery its ... Sevanavank had the strictest lifestyle and conduct guidelines of any monastery in Medieval Armenia. At the time when the monastery was built ...

One of Europe's best-preserved medieval monasteries lies in the Rheingau ... Eberbach became world famous as a film backdrop Eberbach Abbey actually did once own broad expanses of land and vineyards.

Nalanda, the Buddhist mega-monastery in present-day Bihar, was perhaps the single most famous centre of higher ... developing skills and practices useful to medieval royals. Patronising Nalanda ...

The Dečani Monastery was built in the mid-14th century for the Serbian king Stefan Dečanski and is also his mausoleum. The Patriarchate of Peć Monastery is a group of four domed churches featuring ...

Also, for a limited time, other early medieval Irish manuscripts, including the famous “Book of Armagh ... was an essential part of many medieval monasteries particularly insular monasteries ...

Its famous monastery was established by the ... Other finds associated with the early monastery include medieval gaming pieces, coins, carvings and several early medieval burials.

Enclosed and hidden gardens have always appealed to me as spaces sheltered from the stormy world. But a bunker alone is not enough; a refuge must be uplifting and play to the senses. Where better ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece -- The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that several late Antique Age and Medieval monasteries and churches in Mardin's Tur Abdin area have been included in the tentative list of UNESCO ...