The old resort town of Admont is popular largely due to its Benedictine abbey. Founded in 1704 and later rebuilt with the addition of a park with a Neptune fountain, a highlight of Admont Abbey (Stift Admont) is the Abbey Church, dominated by 70-meter-tall twin towers and home to a carved nativity group from 1755 along with exquisite embroidered tapestries.
The most beautiful part of the abbey, however, is its sumptuously decorated Baroque Library with its many ceiling frescos, the statues representing the Four Last Things (heaven, hell, death, and judgment), and the larger than life statues of prophets Moses and Elias and apostles Peter and Paul.
