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Kloster Disentis

TIME : 2016/2/19 0:50:52

This baubly Benedictine monastery has a lavishly stuccoed baroque church attached. A monastery has stood here since the 8th century, but the present immense complex dates from the 18th century. Left of the church entrance is a door to the Klostermuseum crammed with memorabilia on the monastery's history. Head left upstairs to the Marienkirche , a chapel with Romanesque origins filled with ex-voto images from people in need of (or giving thanks for) a miraculous intervention from the Virgin Mary.