Stories: THE ŽIČE CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY: Carthusia-photoLukaDakskobler-009

A monk is tortured on a rack during the re-enactment of the Ottoman invasion of the Žiče Carthusian monastery that took place in March 1531. Creative freedom allowed the organizers to make a hidden monastic treasure as the reason for attacking the monastery, and getting the monks to reveal its location the reason for torturing them.

A monk is tortured on a rack during the re-enactment of the Ottoman invasion of the Žiče Carthusian monastery that took place in March 1531. Creative freedom allowed the organizers to make a hidden monastic treasure as the reason for attacking the monastery, and getting the monks to reveal its location the reason for torturing them.