Monastery of Saint - Gall (Switzerland)

In the Steinach valley, where the monk Gallus retired to live the ascetic life in the 7th century, the Abbot Otmar founded a Benedictin community in 747, building a monastery and a school.

In the ninth and tenth centuries, Saint Gall became one of the important cultural centers in the West. The Saint Gall's school of singing and teaching books, and most of its book-making workshops, where a hand-drawn book of hand-drawn pictures reaches great perfection, has been famous all over the world. Western Christianity.

The monastic period of the monastery took place in the ninth century under abbot Gozbert; then it was rebuilt in a new design that praised the Carolingien dynasty architectural thought. Today the only remaining remains of the Garolingien dynasties are the foundation and some architectural parts found in the 1960s.

The monastery was rebuilt from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. The cathedral and the library are two beautiful examples of Baroque style.The Abbey of Saint-Gall is a major milestone in the history of Western intellectual and religious life and is recorded in the World Heritage List in 1983.