Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair

Val Müstair · Switzerland

Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair, Switzerland
Photo: Adrian Michael, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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May–September
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The Convent of Müstair, which stands in a valley in the Grisons, is a good example of Christian monastic renovation during the Carolingian period. It has Switzerland's greatest series of figurative murals, painted c. A.D. 800, along with Romanesque frescoes and stuccoes.

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