Facts and Data
Webpages:
Official Unesco Page
L'Abbaye de Fontenay
Basis Data:
Unesco World heritage since: 1981
Size of heritage: 5.77 ha
- Buffer zone: 1,397 ha
Coordinates:
Longitude: 4,389°
Latitude: 47,639°
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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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