Karmel Mayerling
Austria
You come to Mayerling expecting a hunting lodge and find a convent. The place lies near Alland in Lower Austria, south-west of Vienna, and it served as a hunting lodge only until 1889. Today it houses the Karmel St. Josef of the Discalced Carmelite nuns, and the quiet you notice on arrival is the quiet of an enclosed religious community. Everything here, from the church to the wall around the cloister, exists because of a single night.
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