On a hill overlooking Arras stand the remains of two towers which bear testament not only to the once-powerful Mont-Saint-Elo ...
Marcevol Priory is situated at an altitude of 500 metres on a plateau overlooking the Tet Valley. The Priory was built in the ...
The Abbey of Saint-Gildas is dedicated to St. Gildas (c. 500–570) who was a British historian and cleric. He is one of ...
Celles-sur-Belle royal abbey was founded in 1137. It was rebuilt in the 15th century and destroyed by Huguenots in 1568. The ...
Founded in 1111, Fontdouce Abbey is a small-scale monastery during the first decades. From the 13th century, the abbey become ...
The first mention of Graville Abbey was in the 9th century. Considered to be a masterpiece of the Romanesque art in Normandy, ...
Saint-Sever Abbey (abbaye de Saint-Sever) is a Benedictine monastery. It was founded at the end of the 10th century by Willi ...
Saint-Jean-d"Angély Royal Abbey was founded in the ninth century to house a relic of Saint John the Baptist. It was reb ...
Fontmorigny Abbey was founded in 1149 as a daughter abbey of Clairvaux. Fontmorigny experienced major economic development fr ...
The abbey of St-Florent-le-Vieil was originally established already in the 6th century. It was a strong and wealthy abbey unt ...
Mortemer Abbey was originally built in 1134 on land gifted to the Cistercians by Henry I of England. The stagnant water of th ...
The Couvent des Jacobins was a monastery in Saint-Sever - Jacobin was the French term for the Dominican Order. Founded in 128 ...
Jouarre Abbey was traditionally founded around 630 AD by the Abbess Theodochilde or Telchilde. She was inspired by the visit ...
The Abbey of St Paul, Verdun is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Verdun, department of Meuse. The surviving buildings ...
Escaladieu Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located in the French commune of Bonnemazon. Its name derives from the Latin ...
Cormery Abbey was founded by Ithier, abbot of Saint Martin in Tours, in 791. It was then attached to the Abbey of Saint Mart ...
It is not exactly known when the Abbaye de Sainte-Trinité in Lessay was established; other historians date it to 1056, Colog ...
The Chartreuse Notre-Dame des Prés was a Carthusian monastery (Charterhouse) in northern France, at Neuville-sous-Montreuil. ...
Saint-Mihiel Abbey is an ancient Benedictine abbey situated in the town of Saint-Mihiel, near Verdun. The benedictine abbey ...
The Bon-Repos Abbey was founded by Viscount Alain III de Rohan in c. 1184. According to legend, he was asked to build it by t ...