Benedictines

Autonomous communities of monks living in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Benedictines':

  • Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch The monastery was settled by Benedictines from the Gorze monastery near Metz. (wiki)
  • Benedictine Convent of St. John
  • Canterbury St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine abbey
  • Dubrovnik A Benedictine Monastery was founded on the island of Lokrum in 1063. They stayed until 1798. The ruins remain.; link
  • Durham Castle and Cathedral "Durham Cathedral was founded as a Benedictine Foundation and remained as such until the Reformation."; link
  • Ferrara Pomposa Abbey
  • Florence Badia Fiorentina
  • Hildesheim Cathedral and Church St. Michael was a Benedictine abbey church
  • Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces The local Benedictine monasteries started the vineyards here
  • Mont-Saint-Michel Benedictine Abbey
  • Pannonhalma
  • Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands Portovenere is an important cultural centre. Among the remains to be found there are those of a .. a Benedictine monastic establishment with a fine proto-Romanesque church (AB ev)
  • Regensburg The town has 3 Benedictine monasteries
  • Reichenau Abbey of Reichenau
  • Rome St. Paul outside the Walls
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Church of Saint-Pierre at Moissac was a Benedictine abbey until 1626
  • Saint-Emilion Built the Monolithic Church
  • Saint-Savin sur Gartempe It was founded as a Benedictine Abbey
  • Salzburg The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and The Nonnberg Benedictine Nunnery
  • Studley Royal Park The Fountains Abbey was founded in 1132 by thirteen Benedictine monks (wiki)
  • Val di Noto San Niccol? l'Arena in Catania
  • Vezelay
  • Wachau Cultural Landscape Melk and Gottweig