Institution

Montmajour Abbey

948 · 10th century

Montmajour Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery on a rocky hill, once an island in the marshes, near Arles in Provence, founded in 948. It became a rich and powerful abbey and a pilgrimage centre, with a Romanesque church, cloister and crypt, and a fortified keep added in 1369. Dissolved in the eighteenth century, its ruins were painted by Vincent van Gogh and are now a historic monument.

Montmajour Abbey
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