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Cistercian abbeyVaucluse
Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque
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Dimensions
Cistercian abbey, austere Romanesque architecture
Period
Founded in 1148, raised to abbey status in 1150; burned by Vaudois Protestants in 1544; sold as national property in 1791; present community established in 1988
What stands there
one active Cistercian abbey, one of the 'Three Sisters of Provence' along with Silvacane and Le Thoronet
This Cistercian abbey, founded in 1148, was burned by Vaudois Protestants in 1544, then sold as national property during the Revolution before being bought back in 1857. After several monastic communities came and went over the 20th century, it has housed, since 1988, a community affiliated with the Abbey of Lérins. A restoration partly funded by the Loto du Patrimoine heritage lottery was carried out in 2019.
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Getting there : Paid entry, around 20,000 visitors a year, famous for its lavender fields
Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.
Ambient sound
Nearby
- Gouffre et source de la Sorgue (Fontaine-de-Vaucluse)Sacred spring / fountain · Fontaine-de-Vaucluse · 4.5 km
- Le mur de la peste, la ligne de 1721 dans les monts de VaucluseSacred mountain · Cabrières-d'Avignon · 5.4 km
- Ermitage et chapelle Saint-GensChapel · Le Beaucet · 5.7 km
- Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de LumièreChurch · Goult · 6.1 km
- Oppède-le-VieuxLegendary castle · Oppède · 11 km
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Véran de CavaillonCathedral · Cavaillon · 16 km
This place in the great stories
- The daughters of Cîteaux: how five abbeys covered EuropeMolesme c. 1075 and Cîteaux in 1098; the first four daughters between 1113 and 1115…
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