In the 14th century, Franciscan monks were permitted to return and live within the ruins of the Basilica, but they were evicted again in 1584.

The ruins of a Franciscan monastery from 1589 are near the church.

The brewery is situated on the site of a Franciscan Abbey where monks had brewed ale since the 14th century, and ruins of the original abbey still remain on its grounds.

The town also contains the ruins of a Franciscan Friary, where the Annals of Nenagh were written and the medieval Priory of St John on the outskirts of the town at Tyone.

In 1866, British Captain Charles William Wilson identified the remains of the synagogue, and in 1894, Franciscan Friar Giuseppe Baldi of Naples, the Custodian of the Holy Land, was able to recover a good part of the ruins from the Bedouins.

To the north of the street are the ruins of Christ Church Greyfriars on the site of a medieval Franciscan monastery.

At this time, about a half-mile east of the Cathedral, Ardfert Abbey was the home of the Crosbies, Baron Brandon, and contained the ruins of the old Franciscan Abbey.

Katarínka ( German St. Katharein ) are the ruins of a Franciscan monastery dating back to early 17th century, located deep in the forests of Little Carpathians ( Malé Karpaty ) mountains of western Slovakia, 20 km north of Trnava over Dubovský creek, close to villages Dechtice, Naháč and Dobrá Voda.

Among the present historical monuments of the island are the 13th century ruins of a Franciscan church and a Dominican church and convent, as well as a Premonstratensian church from the 12th century.

The site is now occupied by the ruins of a later Franciscan Kilcrea Friary.

Most of the buildings, including the ruins of a Franciscan monastery, date from the 14th century.

According to local history, around 1880 the foundations and ruins of that first Franciscan church were still visible.

Roman artefacts have been found on the islet of Sveti Stjepan in front of the village ; here also are the ruins of a Franciscan monastery ( from 1511 ), which was abandoned in 1807.

The ruins of this monastery are still to be seen in Bunnacurry today.

* Marienburg ( Mosel ), a former Augustinian monastery built near the ruins of a Roman fortress in Zell an der Mosel near Trier, Germany

Xinjiang carpet factoryDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries, scientific and archaeological expeditions to the region of Xinjiang's Silk Road discovered numerous cave temples, monastery ruins, and wall paintings, as well as miniatures, books, and documents.

The bombing served only to aid the Germans, as it reduced the monastery to a pile of ruins which provided excellent defensive cover.

Saint Benedict established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero ; Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the ' villa ' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine.

Medieval vestiges remain in the stark church, which is open to the public, and in the ruins of the 11th-century monastery on the sea ’ s edge.

Odessus was an early Christian centre, as testified by ruins of ten early basilicas, a monophysite monastery, and indications that one of the Seventy Disciples, Ampliatus, follower of Saint Andrew ( who, according to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church legend, preached in the city in 56 CE ), served as bishop there.

On a hill overlooking the abbey stand the ruins of an outlying monastery building, Capel Mair ar y Bryn (" the chapel of St Mary on the hill ").

The archaeological excavations conducted in 1987-88 underneath the monastery ruins revealed several Viking graves which have served to confirm the earlier age of the original settlement.

Medieval vestiges remain in the stark church, which is open to the public, and in the ruins of the 11th-century monastery on the sea ’ s edge.

The ruins of a Roman settlement and a ninth century Byzantine monastery can still be seen on the shore, close to the fishermen's shelter, a small wharf which is often used by yachts.

Today the monastery is in ruins.

It is next to the ruins of the monastery.

* Protestant church of Diósgyőr ( Baroque, built on the ruins of a mediaeval monastery )

View of the monastery ruins from the tower of the town church

* Saints Island ( on which there is a graveyard and the buried ruins of a monastery )

The abbey ruins are set in wooded parkland to the west of the village of Netley and constitute the most complete surviving Cistercian monastery in southern England.

Benedict of Nursia established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero.

The crypt of the original monastery survives, and incorporates many stones taken from nearby Roman ruins, probably Coria or Hadrian's Wall.

The old monastery given to Reinfrid comprised about 40 ruined monasteria vel oratoria similar to Irish monastic ruins with numerous chapels and cells.

After the Portuguese Restoration War, during the reign of King John IV, the Counsel of War determined that the demolition of the monastery ruins, and the use of their rocks to build a coastal defense would help protect the coastal settlements ; the Fort of São João Baptista das Berlengas was constructed from the remnants of the monastery ruins.

In 127 BC, out of the ruins of the Seleucid Greek Empire, Characene was founded at the head of the Persian Gulf in borders similar to present day Kuwait.

The Buddhist Mauryan emperor Ashoka is often credited with having founded the old capital of Kashmir, Shrinagari, now ruins on the outskirts of modern Srinagar.

The original building, founded in 1115 by St. Bernard, is now in ruins ; a high-security prison, the Clairvaux Prison, now occupies the grounds.

Many historical structures remain, including a city wall founded in Roman times and rebuilt in the 14th century, the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and a Norman castle, and perhaps the oldest school in England, The King's School.

A Gallo-Celtic tribe, who also seem to have been Insubres, then founded a village on the Lambro, of which the ruins of a bridge remain.

The district contains the ruins of a medieval church, founded in the 8th century, rebuilt in the 11th century, and converted into a fortress in the Late Middle Ages.

After the reinstatement of democracy, Conon rebuilt the walls in 393 BC, founded the temple of Aphrodite Euploia and the sanctuary of Zeus Sotiros and Athena, and built the famous Skevothiki of Philon, the ruins of which have been discovered at Zea harbour.

Karnak was by this time mostly abandoned, and Christian churches were founded amongst the ruins, the most famous example of this is the reuse of the Festival Hall of Thutmose III's central hall, where painted decorations of saints and Coptic inscriptions can still be seen.

At the end of the marsh, on the borders of the forest of Clairmarais, are the ruins of the abbey founded in 1140 by Thierry of Alsace.

Reliefs discovered in the ancient ruins of Nimrud ( the ancient Assyrian city founded by king Shalmaneser I during the 13th century BC ) depict for the first time riders wearing plated-mail shirts composed of metal scales, presumably deployed to provide the Assyrians with a tactical advantage over the unprotected mounted archers of their nomadic enemies, primarily the Aramaeans, Mushki, North Arabian tribes and the Babylonians.

In this vein the self-described " Hyperborean-Roman Company " ( Hyperboreisch-römische Gesellschaft ) were a group of northern European scholars who studied classical ruins in Rome, founded in 1824 by Theodor Panofka, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, August Kestner and Eduard Gerhard.

* The " Hyperboreans " ( Hyperboreisch-römische Gesellschaft ) were a group of northern European scholars who studied classical ruins in Rome, founded in 1824 by Theodor Panofka, Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, August Kestner and Eduard Gerhard.

The cathedral was founded in 1303 by Elizabeth, and the church of St. John, built in 1710, stands on the ruins of the old castle.

The Romans built their own city on the ruins of the Illyrian city and named it Municipium S ( S is the first letter of the name of the city that was founded on the ruins near Pljevlja's Komini suburb ).

The city was founded in 1768 by Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro upon the ruins of a Mauryan fishing village along the bank of the Indus known as Neroon Kot ( Sindhi: نير ُ ون ڪوٽ ).

Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro of the Kalhora Dynasty founded the city in 1768 over the ruins of Neroon Kot ( Nerun or Nerun Kot ) ( meaning the place of Neroon ), a small fishing village on the banks of River Indus named after its ruler Neroon.

Melrose is the location of Melrose Abbey, originally founded by John Edgar and re-founded for the Cistercian order by David I in the early 12th century, one of the most beautiful monastic ruins in Great Britain.

On the Ankerwycke estate in the village are the ruins of a Benedictine nunnery, founded in the reign of King Henry II.

The ruins of the Roman settlement of Alchester are southwest of the town and remains of an Augustinian priory founded in 1180 survive in the town centre.

Historical buildings in and around the town include the pentagonal Pillau Citadel, founded by the Swedes in 1626, completed by the Prussians in 1670, renovated in 1870 and currently holding a naval museum ; the ruins of the 13th-century Lochstadt Castle ; a maze of 19th-century naval fortifications ; the Naval Cathedral of St. George ( 1866 ); the 32-metre Expressionist observation tower ( 1932 ); the Gothic Revival building of the Baltic Fleet Museum ( 1903 ); and an elegant lighthouse, dating from 1813-1816.

Nearby are the ruins of Halesowen Abbey, founded in 1215 by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester.

A branch of the Paris Observatory was founded in 1877 on the ruins.

The Casbah of Algiers is founded on the ruins of old Icosium.

On Inchmahome ( Innis MoCholmaig, island of St Colmaig ) stand the ruins of Inchmahome Priory, an Augustinian priory founded in 1238 by Walter Comyn, and built in the Early English style, with an ornate western doorway.