abbey

Before the Sagrada Familia mass on Wednesday, he is due to visit a prison and an abbey in the Montserrat mountain range overlooking Barcelona.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

To reach the abbey, visitors must climb the town’s famous 199 steps that rise along the cliff.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Chinese brides lining up to marry in Yorkshire abbey.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026

First seen in its full glory at the nearby abbey of St. Denis, Gothic architecture served an age without electricity—one that learned to reduce its walls to their physical minimum in order to welcome sunlight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

Then the nuns at the abbey hired us to catch eels — and we’ve been sniggling ever since.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

If you’re new to her work, here is where to start with Groff’s sprawling canon, which spans from steamy Florida swamps to medieval abbeys with a gift for the unexpected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Abbey beers, which involve a brewer paying royalties in exchange for using the abbey name, are common in Belgium, but until now they have only been with abbeys housing monks.

From Reuters ● Dec. 10, 2021

Many of these abbeys outlived the age that created them, and their garden forms were borrowed in the more secular landscapes that followed.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2020

The peloton sped by ruined abbeys and sights like the 14th-century Bolton Castle, near Leyburn, before finishing in Harrogate, which is known for its spas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2014

In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White