Unesco World Heritage Monastery St.John of Mustair
Müstair
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The internationally-renowned Convent of St. John in Müstair enjoys Unesco World Heritage listing and owes its existence and uniqueness to Charelmagne. It is one of the rare structures to have survived from the Carolingian period. Constructed in the 8th century, the Benedictine convent contains the world’s most extensive and best-maintained early medieval cycle of paintings with impressive frescoes. The convent museum in the Planta tower allows the nuns to provide visitors with a glimpse of the convent’s inner workings. It also entails access to the oldest tower in the Alps dating from the year 960. The exhibition presents 1200 years of monastic and architectural history.
The Müstair-based Convent of St. John dating from the year 775 AD with the largest cycle of early medieval frescoes in the world stemming from c. 800 AD is a jewel of fine art from the Carolingian period. The series of paintings which adorns the entire nave depicts, amongst other scenes, the beheading of John the Baptist. Müstair owes its existence and uniqueness to Charlemagne. The Carolingian church and its unique wall paintings raises this divine Alpine monastery to the standing of a world-heritage-listed site. Join in the discoveries! The nuns have only recently opened the late medieval Planta tower dating from 960 AD to the public. The new cloister museum contains many cultural treasures of times past.
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- museum & butia
Clostra Son Jon
7537 Müstair
Tel. +41(0)81 851 62 28
Fax +41 (0)81 858 62 92
museum@muestair.ch - www.muestair.ch
- World Heritage in Switzerland
