Kirche St. Mang
Baroque former abbey church above a medieval crypt, with a saint's staff in a glass cross over the altar.
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This guide to St. Mang in Füssen begins in the ninth century, when a bishop of Augsburg had the grave of a hermit monk named Magnus opened on a bend of the Lech. It follows what became of the saint's remains across raids, rival abbeys and the centuries that followed. Take the stairs down to the crypt for the middle, where a faded tenth-century wall painting waits.
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