They entered through the gate, and Amy chose an English brochure from the rack. “Wow,” she breathed. “This place is more than thirteen hundred years old. The monastery was founded in 696, but they think the Romans were here even before that.” “Romans?” Dan showed a stirring of interest. “Those Roman legions had some super-sweet fighting skills.” “That’s why you find Roman artifacts all over Europe,” Amy explained. “Their armies were so powerful that they conquered most of the known world.” “Unstoppable,” Dan agreed. He frowned. “So why the church?” “That was built later, in the twelfth century
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