Vyšší Brod – the monastery Monasterium Cisterciense Altovadum, the pearl of South Bohemian Gothic

At the outset, we can reveal that the male Cistercian monastery in Vyšší Brod is without a doubt one of the most important cultural monuments of southern Bohemia and therefore a place highly worth visiting. The correct name of the Vyšebrod monastery, located on the right bank of the Vltava River, is Monasterium Cisterciense Altovadum or Zisterzienserstift Hohenfurth, also because the "superior body" -...