There is little evidence of the construction of the monastery of the Order of St Paul here, but the most likely assumption is that the sacral building on the other side of the valley, the castle and the village, did not exist together, and that some of the building stones of the monastery may have come from the castle itself. The saddest chapter in the history of the area was the Turkish occupation in the 1530s. The church and the village were destroyed and never rebuilt. The building exactly follows the layout of the church attached to the former monastery and its shape is reminiscent of its original sanctuary. OR The Palatine monastery of St Michael of Tormony, belonging to the vicar of Nostra, was probably founded at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries, using stones from the tower of Pustorony and a small quarry. The 682 square metre building, built far from residential areas, was of medium size. The monastery also included a mill and a fish pond, and a well almost 20 metres deep was excavated, which yielded a wealth of artefacts: wooden knives, sickles, a chariot part, a padlock, two iron picks and a tin kettle. The last record of the monastery dates back to 1538, when Buda fell to the Turks in 1541, and in the following years the surrounding castles – Esztergom in 1543, Visegrád and Nógrád in 1544 – were also conquered by the pagans. It was probably at this time that the Pauline monastery was abandoned.
