Cluny Abbey Burgundy
I cannot believe I have not been to Cluny or Burgundy since 2018. In the nineteen eighties we had holiday in Burgundy every year. Staying in a little hamlet called Sommere that was half way between Macon and Cluny . It remains my favourite area of France . My new year resolution for 2022 is to return to France, you can keep all the exotic long haul stuff, I dream of sitting outside a French cafe in a quiet square taking a demitasse of coffee . Followed by a visit to a local boulangerie to buy fresh bread and pain au chocolate. We do have one more English Holiday booked in May in Sussex I hope it's my last British holiday for some time . Holidays are not the same when you do not have to use another language
In France many historic monasteries and abbeys are intact unlike in England where most of the them were destroyed during the reformation .Cluny Abbey is an exception it was heavily damaged in the French revolution . Cluny is a small town in the Mâconnais region of Burgundy. It is odd to think that until the building of St Peters in Rome in mid fifteenth century it had the largest church in Europe .
The abbey was constructed in the Romanesque architectural style, with three churches built in succession from the 4th to the early 12th centuries. Cluny was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. The abbey was notable for its stricter adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict, whereby Cluny became acknowledged as the leader of western monasticism. Sister abbeys to Cluny spread throughout Europe , there were 22 linked priories just in England
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Cluny Abbey Burgundy
I cannot believe I have not been to Cluny or Burgundy since 2018. In the nineteen eighties we had holiday in Burgundy every year. Staying in a little hamlet called Sommere that was half way between Macon and Cluny . It remains my favourite area of France . My new year resolution for 2022 is to return to France, you can keep all the exotic long haul stuff, I dream of sitting outside a French cafe in a quiet square taking a demitasse of coffee . Followed by a visit to a local boulangerie to buy fresh bread and pain au chocolate. We do have one more English Holiday booked in May in Sussex I hope it's my last British holiday for some time . Holidays are not the same when you do not have to use another language
In France many historic monasteries and abbeys are intact unlike in England where most of the them were destroyed during the reformation .Cluny Abbey is an exception it was heavily damaged in the French revolution . Cluny is a small town in the Mâconnais region of Burgundy. It is odd to think that until the building of St Peters in Rome in mid fifteenth century it had the largest church in Europe .
The abbey was constructed in the Romanesque architectural style, with three churches built in succession from the 4th to the early 12th centuries. Cluny was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. The abbey was notable for its stricter adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict, whereby Cluny became acknowledged as the leader of western monasticism. Sister abbeys to Cluny spread throughout Europe , there were 22 linked priories just in England
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD NOT FAVE A PHOTO WITHOUT ALSO LEAVING A COMMENT .