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The Franciscan convent in Atienza is believed to have been founded around 1264. At the end of the 15th century, the house passed to the Observant Franciscans, who remained there until the War of Independence, when the convent was badly damaged and abandoned by the friars.Today only the Gothic apse of the church, from the end of the 14th century, remains.

In 1218, Rodrigo Fernández and his wife, wealthy people from Atienza, founded a female Cistercian monastery in this place, which they named after San Salvador. In the future, this monastery would benefit from more goods and privileges from individuals and also from kings. he monastery continued its activity in this place until 1576, when, following the provisions of the Council of Trent, a more suitable place for the community was sought, and it was moved to the new convent of the Conception of Almonacid de Zorita, which was also abandoned in 1623.

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Verge in Methoni was founded by Cistercians nuns outside the city castle. It provided medical care to those in need.

The ruins of this church are located in Thorpe Parva in Norfolk, just to the north of the A143, and to the east of Scole. The Hall and the tower of the church are the only surviving buildings of the deserted village.

Rujan Monastery is a reconstructed monastery, dating back to the 15th century. It is the place where the first printing house in medieval Serbia was established. Possibly at the beginning of the 17th century, the Ottomans burnt down the printing house and destroyed the monastery. The surviving monks fled to the monastery Rača. According to a document from 1857, at that time there was almost nothing left of the monastery, except for a few stones. After the construction of the "Vrutci" dam on Cetinje in 1980, the monastery was flooded due to the formation of the artificial lake Vrutci. The monastery was completely renovated between 2004 and 2006 and consecrated the following year.

the monastery was founded together with the town sometime in the 1340s, it is documented in writing for the first time in 1257. Today's church is a rarely preserved type of Mendicant buildings, one of the oldest of its kind in our country.

The Protestant church in Runzhausen is a listed half-timbered church from 1781. It was built according to Georg Blecher's plans in the Rococo style. The church is nicknamed "Kaffeemühlenkirche" (coffee mill church).

The land on which the fortified church in Ruşi was built was not very merciful to the first building erected in the Catholic time, which collapsed and was replaced by a new church in 1636. Despite many repairs, the second church also collapsed in 1780. Still the weak foundation soil, as with the well-known tower of Pisa, will bring fame to the actual church erected in 1782, whose bell tower has a tilt of 1,50 m. The hall church with square chancel and polygonal closure is home to many valuable Baroque pieces such as the 1641 altar, the 1764 canopy of the pulpit, and the 1805 organ. In 1785 Daniel Knobloch painted the railing of the gallery with Saints and the village’s coat of arms held by two men wearing traditional costumes from Ruşi.

Presumably, the Jewish Cemetery in Rus`ke was established in the 19th century. According to epigraphic data, it already existed in 1847. The cemetery is depicted on a cadastral map of 1865. The cemetery was used until WWII, and the latest preserved gravestone date to 1940.The cemetery was also used by the neighbouring Jewish community of Stare Davydkovo.

The cemetery was established in the early or mid-19th century. The oldest preserved gravestone relates to 1849. The old (northern) part of the cemetery appears on the cadastral map of 1865, the southern part was established later. It can be assumed that the cemetery was used until WWII, although the latest preserved gravestone relates to 1900.