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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 > [SWITZER.TICINO 01349] 'Port of Locarno.' The pleasure port of Locarno at the Lago Maggiore. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/1528900_nD4rL-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SWITZER.TICINO 01349] 'Port of Locarno.' The pleasure port of Locarno at the Lago Maggiore. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01630] 'Grand hotel.' Stresa, at the shores of Lago Maggiore, is a lakeside resort of the Belle Époque. In the 'Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées', its centerpiece, the era of plush and marmor never ended. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/1528881_FUQeb-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01630] 'Grand hotel.' Stresa, at the shores of Lago Maggiore, is a lakeside resort of the Belle Époque. In the 'Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées', its centerpiece, the era of plush and marmor never ended. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01634] 'Grand hotel.' Stresa, at the shores of Lago Maggiore, is a lakeside resort of the Belle Époque. In the 'Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées', its centerpiece, the era of plush and marmor never ended. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/1528880_MDsga-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01634] 'Grand hotel.' Stresa, at the shores of Lago Maggiore, is a lakeside resort of the Belle Époque. In the 'Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées', its centerpiece, the era of plush and marmor never ended. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01684] 'Lago Maggiore seen from Isola Bella.' The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. An ode to rationality, being baroque, as well a surrealistic dream. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/1528872_nhrEP-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [ITALY.PIEMONTE 01684] 'Lago Maggiore seen from Isola Bella.' The 'beautiful island', main sight of the Lago Maggiore, is a man made piece of art. An ode to rationality, being baroque, as well a surrealistic dream. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.VORARL 00905] 'Rolls Royce museum.' The largest Rolls Royce museum is in Austria, Dornbirn - not in England. Owner Franz Vonier shows the Rolls of the Queen Mum, among many celebrities, and tells tasty stories about cars and owners. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/733065_Lk9qY-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.VORARL 00905] 'Rolls Royce museum.' The largest Rolls Royce museum is in Austria, Dornbirn - not in England. Owner Franz Vonier shows the Rolls of the Queen Mum, among many celebrities, and tells tasty stories about cars and owners. 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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