Gurk monastery. The oldest Carinthia's Lenten veil, Fastentuch, or Hungertuch "cloth of hunger", is a large decorated cloth that during Lent hid the altar from the faithful.. The formerly Benedictine, then Augustinian and now Salvatorian abbey of Gurk is one of Carinthia′s most elaborately decorated ones, but also among the top-notch attractions of Austria.
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