The feuilleton-style narratives and the selected photographs provide vivid insights into the unique aura of places whose spiritual dimension influences our real world. These are locations with significant histories and rich artistic legacies, filled with beauty and magic, offering us peace, security, tranquility, and strength: from Altenberg Monastery to Jerusalem, from Mont Saint-Michel to Montecassino. This compact volume serves as a reading, contemplation, and meditation book for moments of leisure, inspiring readers and making it a valuable companion, especially while traveling.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
The Spirit of the Place
Life as a Pilgrimage, a Journey to Ourselves
Where Happiness Resides
The Spiritual Travel Book - Its Destinations
Altenberg, "Bergischer Dom" - A Place of Peace near Cologne
Andechs Monastery - The Holy Mountain of Bavaria
Banz and Vierzehnheiligen - In the Garden of God
Beuron - A Source of Spirituality and Art
Disentis-Müstair - Seekers of God in the Graubünden Mountains
Einsiedeln - The Spiritual Heart of Switzerland
St. Georgenberg-Fiecht - The Pilgrimage of Tyrolean Women
Chiemsee and Herrenchiemsee - The Sibling Pair in the Lake
Stift Göttweig - Montecassino in the Wachau
Stift Heiligenkreuz - A Place of Strength in the Vienna Woods
Jerusalem - City of Salvation and Pilgrimage Destination for Three Religions
Kladruby - An Architectural Wonder of West Bohemia
Laon - Jerusalem in Picardy
Maria Laach - The Beauty by the Lake
Stift Marienberg - A Spiritual Anchor in Vinschgau
Stift Melk - Like a Ship in the Surf
Mont Saint-Michel - The Holy Mountain in the Sea
Mont Sainte-Odile - Where the Eyes Are Opened
Montecassino - The Cradle of Europe at the Origin of Cultures
Morimond - Removed from the World
Pribram - Up the Scala Sancta to Svatá Hora
Raitenhaslach - The Rediscovered Paradise
Reichenau - The Hortulus Benedictus
Säben Monastery - The Holy Mountain in South Tyrol
Saint-Maurice d’Agaune - In the Footsteps of the.