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Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

France
Date of Inscription: 1981
Extension: 2007
Criteria: (iv)
Core zone: 5.77 ha
Buffer zone: 1397 ha
Department of Côte d'Or, Burgundy Region
N47 38 21.984 E4 23 20.796
Ref: 165bis

Brief Description

This stark Burgundian monastery was founded by St Bernard in 1119. With its church, cloister, refectory, sleeping quarters, bakery and ironworks, it is an excellent illustration of the ideal of self-sufficiency as practised by the earliest communities of Cistercian monks.

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