(CBS) - This is truly fascinating! Directors Francis Cutter & Vincent Nguyen went to Fontevraud Abbey in the Loire Valley, France, a religious building hosting a cultural centre. At the abbey they ...

If you are ever in France, check out the Fontevraud Abbey, a gigantic monastery created in 1100 by a preacher trying to create a new world order. In this sanctuary, women were appointed leaders of ...

Archeologists rediscovered what they believed to be the heart in 1920 and reburied it in a modern container; it was exhumed again in 1996, and reburied beneath the abbey’s lawn in 1998. 3. ST.

The Fontevraud Modern Art Museum, housed in a 12th-century monastery’s former stables, ... Fontevraud Abbey is one of the largest monastic centres in France. Founded in 1101, ...

Hotel Fontevraud in Anjou, France, re-opened this summer after two years of remodeling, with 52 rooms and a fine-dining restaurant, helmed by a Bucose d’Or winner.

Fontevraud Abbey, now a centre for the arts specialising in music and multimedia installations, and inset, Chez Teresa We had been travellers in our imagination for years - watching various ...

View of Fontevraud Abbey, one of the largest monastic citadels in Europe. (Photo by Nicolas Mathéus) Into the suspended atmosphere of this setting Jouin and Manku have poured their vision of the ...

SHE was some woman, Eleanor of Aquitaine. I’m thinking this as I stare at the old girl’s effigy in the stunning surroundings of Fontevraud Abbey in the Pays de la Loire, France. This majestic ...

Hotel Fontevraud in Anjou, France, re-opened this summer after two years of remodeling, with 52 rooms and a fine-dining restaurant, helmed by a Bucose d’Or winner.