Reichenau

Today we took the ferry over to Constance & had a look round before visiting Reichenau, a nearby island. Reichenau is famous for the abbey, a world heritage site, but St George's, the ancient church there was fascinating.

The Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau was founded in 724 by the itinerant Saint Pirmin, who is said to have fled Spain ahead of the Moorish invaders.

The Abbey stood along a main north–south highway between Germany and Italy, housed a school, and a scriptorium and artists' workshop, that has a claim to having been the largest and artistically most influential centre for producing lavishly illuminated manuscripts in Europe during the late 10th and early 11th centuries, often known as the Reichenau School.

I still prefer St George's.