swap_horiz Holy Cross Abbey Alternatives

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Cîteaux Abbey

Cîteaux Abbey was founded in 1098 in Burgundy by Robert of Molesme as a reformed Benedictine community observing stricte...

France Medieval Active Cistercian

9.2 Excellent

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Alcobaça Abbey

The Alcobaça Monastery is a Cistercian Catholic monastery located in the town of Alcobaça, Portugal. It was founded in 1...

Gothic Active Portugal Cistercian

9.1 Excellent

3

Poblet Monastery

The Royal Abbey of Santa Maria de Poblet is a Cistercian monastery located in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, Catalonia...

Spain Gothic Active Cistercian

8.9 Great

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Kylemore Abbey

Kylemore Abbey is a Benedictine monastery located in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The building was originally cons...

Ireland Victorian Active Benedictine

8.9 Great

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Heiligenkreuz Abbey

Heiligenkreuz Abbey is a Cistercian monastery in the Vienna Woods, Lower Austria, founded in 1133 by Margrave Leopold II...

Austria Active Cistercian Romanesque Gothic

8.7 Great

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Las Huelgas

Cistercian royal monastery in Burgos, Spain, founded in 1187 by King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Queen Eleanor of Englan...

Spain Royal Burial Active Cistercian

8.7 Great

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Melrose Abbey

Melrose Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in the town of Melrose in the Scottish Borders, founded in 1136 by King D...

Scotland Gothic Ruins Cistercian

8.5 Great

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Zwettl Abbey

Zwettl Abbey is a Cistercian monastery located in Lower Austria, founded in 1137 by Hadmar I of Kuenring. The complex in...

Austria Medieval Active Cistercian

8.5 Great

9

Hautecombe Abbey

Hautecombe Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery located on the shores of Lac du Bourget in Savoie, France. Founded in...

France Medieval Active Cistercian

8.4 Great

10

Sénanque Abbey

Sénanque Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque) is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1148 near Gordes in the Luberon regi...

France Active Lavender Romanesque

8.3 Great

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San Galgano Abbey

San Galgano is a ruined Cistercian abbey located in Tuscany, Italy, with construction beginning in the early 13th centur...

Italy Gothic Tuscany Ruins

8.3 Great

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Lerins Abbey

Lérins Abbey is an active Cistercian monastery situated on the Île Saint-Honorat, one of the Lérins Islands off the coas...

France Medieval Active Island

8.3 Great

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Bebenhausen Monastery

Bebenhausen Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey located near Tübingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, fou...

Germany Gothic Museum Swabia

8.3 Great

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Lilienfeld Abbey

Lilienfeld Abbey, officially known as Stift Lilienfeld, is an active Cistercian monastery located in Lower Austria. Foun...

Austria Gothic Active Cistercian

8.1 Great

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Chiaravalle Abbey

Chiaravalle Abbey is a Cistercian monastery located south of Milan, Italy, founded in 1135 by Bernard of Clairvaux. It w...

Italy Gothic Active Milan

8.0 Great

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Pelplin Abbey

Pelplin Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery located in Pelplin, Pomerania, Poland, founded in 1274. The site's Gothic...

Poland Gothic Active Cistercian

7.7 Good

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Vyšší Brod Abbey

Vyšší Brod Abbey is a Cistercian monastery located in the southern Bohemian region of the Czech Republic. Founded in 125...

Gothic Active Czech Republic Bohemia

7.6 Good

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Løgum Abbey

Løgum Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery located in the South Jutland region of Denmark, founded around 1173. Its Go...

Denmark Gothic Active Jutland

7.3 Good

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Ourscamps Abbey

Ourscamps Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery located near Noyon in northern France. Founded in 1129 by Bernard of Cl...

France Gothic Active Picardy

7.2 Good

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Mount Melleray Abbey

Mount Melleray Abbey is a monastery near Cappoquin in County Waterford, Ireland, belonging to the Cistercians of the Str...

Ireland Active Cistercian Trappist

6.9 Fair