(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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

That’s the case of Fontevraud abbey, in the former duchy of Anjou. Run by a woman during its heyday, the abbey was turned into a prison after the French Revolution.

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.