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Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes

Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes

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Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes

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Location: New Aquitaine, France

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Matto

October 18, 2023

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The Abbaye-aux-Dames is built around the church of Sainte-Marie, built in the twelfth century. Famous for its facade and its characteristic "pinecone" bell tower, it is one of the emblematic monuments of Saintonge's Romanesque art.
After several wars and fires, the place was restored in the 1970s and 1980s and is now a hotel.
When you walk through the long corridors you feel like you have been transported back to the time when the abbey was still alive.

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Fcl

October 10, 2019

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And here you can stay cheap. In the very well-prepared cells. Breakfast from 7:00 h. Very rich

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Fabrice Rigalleau

September 20, 2023

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A former Benedictine abbey created in 1047, Abbaye-aux-Dames was the first women's monastery in Saintonge. These powerful women were nuns, that is to say, nuns living cloistered and having taken …

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Saintes Public Garden – Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes loop from Saintes

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