AT - LOWER AUSTRIA: Melk Monastery high above the River Danube


Melk (older spelling: Mölk) is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. With a population of (as of 2001), it is also the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery named Stift Melk.


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