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Always a stop on a Danube river cruise, Melk's Benedictine monastery is situated on an isolated rock commanding the Danube, and is the largest in Austria. In its time and day it was the most important work of sacral Baroque in Europe. The monastery has a magnificent library with a collection of some 100,000 precious books and manuscripts.
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