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The top sight to see in the lovely Swiss city Sankt Gallen (Saint-Gall in French) is the Baroque monastery complex with its magnificent Rococo library and impressive cathedral. The former Benedictine monastery of St Gallen has Carolingian roots but visitors come to see the Baroque convent built during the mid-eighteenth century. The highlight is the library, which apart from the important historical documents in its collection, is beautifully decorated in a typical south German Rococo style. The former abbey church, now a cathedral, is also a splendid example of Baroque architecture in Switzerland.

The UNESCO-Listed Monastery Complex of St Gallen, Switzerland

The monastery district (Stiftsbezirk) of St Gallen is included on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list as a good example of a large Benedictine Carolingian monastery that has been a center of learning for a continuous period of more than a millennium. The library collection of handwritten manuscripts is of particular historical importance.

St Gallen’s monastery tradition goes back to 747 when a Benedictine monastery was founded here. By 818, the abbey received imperial privileges and immunities, which saw the abbot independent from local church authorities. From 1206 onwards, as princes of the realm, the abbots would rule the monastery and further lands until Napoleonic troops occupied St Gallen in 1798. The abbey was formally disbanded in 1805.

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