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Monastery of St Euphemia

TIME : 2016/2/18 17:12:47

A 2.5km walk heading north along the seaside promenade from Rab's Old Town will bring you to this peaceful Franciscan Monastery, dating from the 13th century. The monks have a small museum here with old manuscripts and religious paintings. Check out the pleasant cloister and, inside the baroque church of St Bernardine, the ethereal painted ceiling – a stark contrast to the visceral agony depicted on the late-Gothic wooden crucifix in the side chapel. Note also the 15th-century polyptych by the Vivarini brothers.