The Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross) in Austria is the oldest in the world, dating back almost 1,000 years, and currently has more than 100 monks living there. It has never had ...

The abbey ruins lie within the footprint of Beijing's proposed "super-embassy", a development that has been met with ...

A decade-long excavation project uncovered around 120,000 artifacts at a medieval monastery, a book has revealed. Rushen Abbey was founded as a Cistercian monastery in A.D. 1134 on the Isle of Man—a ...

Casamari Abbey in Italy is a gem of Cistercian-Gothic art, whose stones have been imbued with the prayers of monks over the centuries. Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of ...

Who can resist a riverside village with striking historical ruins, proper boozers, and picturesque walks? Fortunately, there are plenty of these to be found in the Wye Valley, which borders England ...