The odds are that your newly discovered wonder is or was a church founded by the Catholic monks of the mediaeval Cistercian Order, and that it has been inspiring people to ask that same question for ...

The architectural ensemble of the monastery reflects developments within the Cistercian order between the 12th and 16th centuries, and also the effect of secularization and conversion to Protestant ...

With its church, cloister, refectory, sleeping quarters, bakery and ironworks, it is an excellent illustration of the ideal of self-sufficiency as practised by the earliest communities of Cistercian ...