Abbaye de Cluny

Cluny

The beating heart of medieval monastic reform, Cluny stood at its height at the centre of Europe's largest network of abbeys, with some 1,450 affiliated monasteries across the Christian West. Its abbey church, today almost entirely destroyed after the Revolution, was for close to five centuries the largest religious building in Christendom, until the completion of St Peter's in Rome — a spiritual empire of which only a transept and a few towers remain, a fraction of its original, immense scale.

Getting there : Paid entry

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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