Hautecombe Abbey
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Hautecombe Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in Savoie, France. For centuries it was the burial place of the members of the House of Savoy. It is visited by 150,000 tourists annually.
Hautecombe Abbey on the shores of the Lac du Bourget
Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily was a Princess of Naples and Sicily and later Queen of Sardinia as wife of King Charles Felix. She was a daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria.
Portrait of Princess Maria Cristina as a child (by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, c. 1790)