Around 100,000 books dating back to the year 900 and the many rooms are being restored at Austria’s historic Melk Abbey’s Library. ADVERTISEMENT.

Out and About: Melk is one of eight cities included on a Danube River cruise from Vienna, Austria to Nuremberg, Germany. The Stift Abbey, run by Benedictine monks, has been on this site since 1089 ...

A medieval fragment of a "Vagina Monologue" poem has been discovered at the Melk Abbey in Austria by experts from the Institute of Medieval Research at Austria’s Academy of Science ...

Melk Abbey Austria. Less than an hour away from Vienna, Melk Abbey is located above the town of Melk. Built in 1732, this monastery sits high above the town. The abbey was found in 1089, when ...

Ancient monasteries in deepest provincial Austria do not normally feature on the bucket lists of the TikTok generation. Nor do libraries. But the Admont abbey library in the small Styrian town ...

Restoration work has begun in an Austrian library containing a hundred thousand historical books. The book hoard at Melk Abbey is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and it has a remarkable ...

Melk Abbey, Less than an hour away from Vienna, Melk Abbey is located above the town of Melk. Built in 1732, this monastery sits high above the town. The abbey was found in 1089, when Leopold II ...