Melk Abbey Wheelchair Accessible Tours
Melk Abbey wheelchair accessible tours, is one of the most enchanting baroque buildings in Austria, painted yellow ocher and purple red and immersed in a green bush.
The yellow of the façade, previously painted pink, is a recent homage to Schonbrunn Palace.
To make it even more majestic, its position, above a rocky spur with a view of the valley and the Renaissance roofs of the city.
Not far west of Vienna, Melk is set in a splendid river landscape, among the most wonderful in Europe, the Wachau, in Lower Austria.
Is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the many valleys that the Danube encounters along its journey through the Eastern Europe.
A landscape that is not only natural, made up of terraced vineyards and apricot trees, but also cultural, dotted with parish churches, castles, Renaissance villages and ancient monasteries.
Adso da Melk, Benedictine novice disciple of Brother William of Baskerville, both born from the pen of Umberto Eco, wrote his memoirs here at the end of the XIV century.
The Name of the Rose, a famous novel that does not need too many introductions, gravitates around this mythical and at the same time real place.
Melk Abbey, a baroque construction that dominates the Austrian city of the same name and a stretch of the Danube.
Melk Abbey Private Accessible Tours
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Touring Melk Abbey
The monastic complex was born as a fortress-residence of the Babenbergs in the X century and was then converted into a Benedictine Monastery in 1089.
Since then the monks of St Benedetto have never left it, creating a rare example of a monastery active since its foundation, in name of the rule of the inspiring saint.
Rich in frescoes, sculptures and decorative arts, the former fortress is divided into several rooms and represents a cultural center renowned throughout Europe.
Home to a school as early as the XII century, it houses the famous Stift Gymnasium.
The precious library, present since the Middle Ages, preserves the knowledge of the Abbey in tomes of inestimable value.
Equally spectacular are the 11 Imperial Rooms currently used as a museum.
It is here that the visitor learns the history and role of the Melk Abbey in the Austrian events of the past, through historical relics, including the Melk cross made, according to tradition, with a fragment of the true cross of Christ.
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