{"id":23,"date":"2015-04-09T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/?p=23"},"modified":"2015-04-17T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:45:48","slug":"11a-melk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"11a-Melk-Monday, May 18 (Morning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/melk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/melk-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"melk\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/melk-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/melk-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/melk.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Scenic Cruising. This morning, the ship sails through a beautiful untouched stretch of the Danube called the Strudengau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Included Melk Abbey Tour \u0082. Dock in Melk in the morning and disembark for an excursion to the dramatic 900-year-old baroque Melk Abbey, perched on sheer cliffs high above the Danube. Rebuilt during the 18th century after the original building was destroyed by fire, its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftmelk.at\/englisch\/pages_melk\/library.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>stunning library<\/strong><\/a> is now home to a wide range of medieval manuscripts. The interior of the abbey\u2019s church is a kaleidoscope of red, orange and gold, with a magnificent carved pulpit and shimmering ceiling frescoes. You will also see the imperial rooms, which are now home to a museum chronicling the Abbey\u2019s history from its inception to modern times.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stiftmelk.at\/englisch\/fotos\/bibliothek-raum2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scenic Cruising. Return to your ship in the early afternoon and sail through the Wachau Valley, heart of Austria\u2019s wine country. This area is filled with cultural and historic importance, and is of such unsurpassed beauty that it has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/417wauchau-l.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenic Cruising. This morning, the ship sails through a beautiful untouched stretch of the Danube called the Strudengau. Included Melk Abbey Tour \u0082. Dock in Melk in the morning and disembark for an excursion to the dramatic 900-year-old baroque Melk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/?p=23\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comenius.org\/river_cruise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}