The monastery was founded in 1075, or possibly even a little earlier, by Géza I of Hungary. The core of the monastery was the Abbey church and monastery buildings around the so-called paradise courtyard on its southern side. The original Romanesque church, from the period when the monastery was established, was formed by a rather large three-nave building with three semicircular apses on the eastern side and a pair of towers on the western side. We only know the layout of the church from the archaeological excavations that took place here in the 1880s during the restoration of the...