cloister• Courtyards and cloisters are pools of shadow and lamp-light.• St. Francis of Assisi originally founded the cloister which now encloses a garden and well.• We left the guest house, going through stone-vaulted passageways into the cloister garth.• At No. 4/183 were the cloisters and church of the Czech Barnabite Order, founded in 1626.• The cloisters are equally fine and on the north side date from 1170 like the portal.• The cloisters are fine and have varied and originalcarvedcolumns and capitals.• Thrustingspires, softened by time; vaultedcloisters floored with cobblestrod thin by genius.
Origincloister
(1200-1300)Old Frenchcloistre, from Latinclaustrum“bar keeping a door closed”, from claudere“to close”