In the territories of Poland, the Gothic style rarely took such spectacular forms ... It appeared first in Lesser Poland, but the first Cistercian monasteries erected here – in Jędrzejów, Koprzywnica, ...

The monastery's church, mainly in Transitional Gothic style, had a major influence in the spread of Gothic architecture over much of northern and central Europe. The water-management system at ...

On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other ... 12th-century European monks who ushered in the then-new ...