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Alvastra

Village in Östergötland County, Sweden From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Alvastra (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈâlːˌvasːtra] ⓘ)[1] is a small village in Ödeshög Municipality in eastern Sweden. It is known for being the seat of the Cistercian Alvastra Abbey in the Middle Ages, established in 1143 by French monks.[2] After the Reformation in Sweden in the 1530s, the monastery was demolished, never to be rebuilt.

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Alvastra as it looked in Suecia antiqua et hodierna, around 1700.

The Alvastra monastery ruin is today well preserved and popular place to visit.

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