Town Views
We didn’t get to visit the town of Krems, but we saw all of it – from above. As you might expect, the abbey provides great views of Krems and the Danube valley. This wood panel is in the back of the church. It shows an angel blessing the town and citizens...
Krems Abbey Church
The church is decorated in what Joyce called “baroque excess.” Everything’s quite beautiful – but there is too much of it. For those of us who are not Catholics, and who have a very different experience of what churches are like, I’ve found that it helps if you...
Krems Abbey grounds
Now that our big adventures in Budapest and Vienna are past, we can turn our attention to the ship and to the small towns that we are visiting along the Danube. The first of these is Krems,
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