Melk - Global Citizenship Summer School (sitios de interés)
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Melk
Melk is an Austrian town which islocated next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. It has always been animportant spiritual and cultural center of Austria. This small town on the bankof the Danube is very peaceful, beautiful and magnificent, with its own history.The vast majority of visitors come here to see the Baroque masterpiece, theMelk Abbey.
Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gaveone of his castles to the Benedictine monks of Lambach Abbey in 1089. Unfortunately,the original building was almost destroyed in the fire of 1297. What touristsknow today as Melk Abbey is an early 18th century Baroque building. It is notpossible to describe all the beauty of the Melk and Melk Abbey verbally – It isbest to see it in person.