This shop at the Pleterje Monastery is where the monks sell some of their own products, including beeswax candles, honey, Cviček wine and various fruit brandies, including hruška (pear), which comes with a pear grown inside each bottle and then picked when ripe.
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Located 10km southwest of Kostanjevica na Krki, the enormous Pleterje Monastery belongs to the Carthusians, the strictest of all monastic orders. The…
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