Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair

World Heritage

Switzerland

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Müstair Abbey, located in a valley in the canton of Graubünden, is an excellent example of a Christian monastery converted during the Carolingian period. The abbey contains Switzerland's greatest series of figurative frescoes, painted around 800 AD, as well as Romanesque murals and stuccoes.

# Carolingian dynasty

# Benedictine Abbey of St. John

# Graubünden

# Christian monastery

# Figurative murals

# Romanesque frescoes