We skipped lunch today as we had enough stored in our humps.
We did not do the walking tour of Regensburg but opted for the half day tour to
the Weltenberg Abbey. This is a
Benedictine Monastery founded by Irish or Scottish monks in the 7th
Century. It has the oldest brewery in the world founded around 1050 AD. They produce a very dark lager which have won
awards, though I am not sure why. There
was nothing wrong with it but it didn’t really have a distinctive taste, in
fact it didn’t taste like anything.
The
Church was very interesting and the highlight features is that the ceiling has
been painted so it appears that it is done on a curved roof, we saw the same
technique used at the Melk Abbey Church.
They also used stage art or alter art which we had not seen before with figures being used above the alter ro tell a story. The main one shows St George killing the dragon.
In order to get to it we went through the narrowest part of
the Danube River going through the very cleverly named, Danube Gorge. It was quite a scenic and interesting trip having
views of the gorge as well as Liberation Hall.
Thus was built by King Ludwig of Bavaria to commemorate the wars of 1813
when they were liberated from Napoleonic rule.
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