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Extract from the New Norcia Travel Guides: One of WA's most extraordinary architectural sights is the nineteenth-century monastic community of
NEW NORCIA
, 130km northeast of Perth on the Great Northern Highway. This unexpected collection of Spanish-style buildings, bizarrely out of place in the Australian bush, is part of a community founded by Benedictine monks in 1846.
Dom Rosendo Salvado
established the mission (named after St Benedict's birthplace in Italy) with the aim of converting the local Aborigines to the "twin blessings" of agriculture and Christianity, and to escape persecution back home. Nowadays it's a popular tourist attraction, which...
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