Benedictine monks.......

We took a tour of New Norcia a very unique place owned and occupied by eleven Benedictine monks.

This is the big iron gates that keep everybody other than the monks
 out of the monastery.....

....and this is a view of the building taken through the gates!

All of the architecture is of Spanish heritage which is where the
Monks originated from in the 1800's.

The interiors of the buildings are equally spectacular.....

.....and the walls and ceilings all hand painted.

The paintings were all done by the monks themselves and....

....and the scale of them very impressive.