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![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04193]
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50101058_bQtkB-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04193]
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04187]
'Sleeping beauty 2.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50101049_w5obd-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04187]
'Sleeping beauty 2.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03668]
'Ugly?'
Baroque, the style that elsewhere along the Danube can be described as elegant and playful, seems to have lost all its lightheartedness at the Göttweig monastery. The only thing that counts is to impress. Gottfried Bessel, the 50th abbot, had tight connections to the imperor. He dreamed about a Austrian Escorial on his hilltop, overlooking the Danube and Krems in the distance. After a fire in 1718, which, so is told, he lit himself, there was space for his ambitions. A huge, square pleasure palace was erected. The gold foil blinds your eyes in the abbey church, but more then only sumptuous everything looks heavy and ponderous. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50100940_tUVCp-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03668]
'Ugly?'
Baroque, the style that elsewhere along the Danube can be described as elegant and playful, seems to have lost all its lightheartedness at the Göttweig monastery. The only thing that counts is to impress. Gottfried Bessel, the 50th abbot, had tight connections to the imperor. He dreamed about a Austrian Escorial on his hilltop, overlooking the Danube and Krems in the distance. After a fire in 1718, which, so is told, he lit himself, there was space for his ambitions. A huge, square pleasure palace was erected. The gold foil blinds your eyes in the abbey church, but more then only sumptuous everything looks heavy and ponderous. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01740] 'Holy giant .' A child is looking out of the back of a giant. The Colosso di San Carlone, a huge copper statue dating 1698 of a canonized shoot of the mighty Borromeo-family, overlooks the slopes above Lago Maggiore near Arona, blessing the landscape. As an ordinary mortal you can see the world through his holy eyes by climbing a narrow stairway all the way up into his head. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/1528857_rap6F-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01740] 'Holy giant .' A child is looking out of the back of a giant. The Colosso di San Carlone, a huge copper statue dating 1698 of a canonized shoot of the mighty Borromeo-family, overlooks the slopes above Lago Maggiore near Arona, blessing the landscape. As an ordinary mortal you can see the world through his holy eyes by climbing a narrow stairway all the way up into his head. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01747] 'Inside a holy head.' The Colosso di San Carlone, a huge copper statue dating 1698 of a canonized shoot of the mighty Borromeo-family, overlooks the slopes above Lago Maggiore near Arona. As an ordinary mortal you can see the world through his holy eyes by climbing a narrow stairway all the way up into his head. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/1528856_uNd4c-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01747] 'Inside a holy head.' The Colosso di San Carlone, a huge copper statue dating 1698 of a canonized shoot of the mighty Borromeo-family, overlooks the slopes above Lago Maggiore near Arona. As an ordinary mortal you can see the world through his holy eyes by climbing a narrow stairway all the way up into his head. Photo Paul Smit.")
[AUSTRIA.OBER 04193]
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04193]
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50101058_bQtkB-S.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.OBER 04193]
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.")
[AUSTRIA.OBER 04193]
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.
'Sleeping beauty.'
Quite a sight, these skeletons of saints in their gilded glass coffins in Stift Engelszell, located on the banks of the Danube near Engelshartzell. After a visit you could need a nip. Fortunately, the monks at Austria's only Trappist monastery distillate good drinks. Like a nice, very creamy advocaat. Photo Paul Smit.
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