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49590 Fontevraud l'Abbaye
Tél. +33 (0)2 41 51 73 52
abbaye@abbayedefontevraud.com
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No period of closure, except :
01/01, 01/05, 11/11 and 25/12 01/01 to 31/03 : 10h to 17h30
01/04 to 31/05 : 10h to 18h
01/06 to 30/09 : 9h to 18h30
01/10 to 31/10 : 10h to 18h
02/11 to 31/12 : 10h to 17h30
Rates 5,50 € ; redu
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Situated to 18 km of Royal Saumur, the Abbey of Fontevraud is the most important monastic set today which remains in west mixing Romanesque, Gothic art and revival.
Your visit will lead you to the Abbey church sheltering the polychromatic recumbent effigies of Richard Cœur de Lion, his relatives, Aliénor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenêt, and from Isabelle of Angoulême. You can also admire the Convent of Grand Moutier, one of the vastest of France, which represents well the transition to the 16th between the blazing Gothic and the revival. Without forgetting the dining hall walls of which date 12th century and the famous circular Romanic kitchen called Evraud's Tower. Finally, let go to you to the stroll in the prieuré saint Lazare and its orangery of the 17th.
Lived by the memory of Plantagenêt, princesses of Bourbon but also by its past of penitentiary, vocation attributed in 1804 by Napoleon Ier, the Abbey Royal of Fontevraud shelter since 1975 the western Cultural center, the place of creation and formation bound to the heritag.
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