Imagine a place that has been around for centuries and has a mixture of two totally different architectural styles. This is Mariánská Týnice in the Czech Republic!
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Imagine a place that has been around for centuries and has a mixture of two totally different architectural styles. This is Mariánská Týnice in the Czech Republic!
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Around Pilsen there are numerous former monasteries, which today invite you to visit them. Each monastery has something special and many facilities are architecturally unique. Plasy Monastery is one of the largest monasteries in the region.
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A little more than 30 kilometres from Pilsen, in Kladruby in the west of the Czech Republic, lies the beautiful Kladruby Monastery with its associated castle building. I was very impressed by the visit to the monastery church, what a beautiful and above all large building.
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Between Zittau and Görlitz, south of Ostritz lies directly on the Neisse River the monastery St.Marienthal. The monastery is a Cistercian abbey and the oldest women’s monastery of the order in Germany.
There’s nothing going on in Zeitz… only old people live there… where is Zeitz, I’ve never heard of it…
We have often heard these and other prejudices when we have reported enthusiastically about the town in Saxony-Anhalt. Of course Zeitz is struggling.
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In the south of Saxony-Anhalt in the Burgenlandkreis district only about 25 kilometres north of Gera lies the city of Zeitz. We spent a day in the city and discovered a lot. Follow us on a little tour through Zeitz.