24th July, visited the Wachau region – a valley formed by the River Danube (second largest in Europe after the Volga) and particularly Melk and Durnstein. At Melk there is a magnificent Benedictine Monastery which is the most famous in all Austria. It knows its beginning in 1089 but today’s Baroque abbey was built between 1702 and 1736. It is particularly reknown for the abbey church frescoes and for its impressive library with countless medieval manuscripts.
Of the many pictures I took, I selected this one from the Abbey Museum. The mirrors give this statue a 3-D dimension and at first I thought it was actually 3 statues and not one.
