Vézelay Abbey
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Vézelay Abbey is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department of Yonne. It was constructed between 1120 and 1150. The Benedictine abbey church, now the Basilica
The abbey church in Vézelay
Aerial view
Floorplan of Vézelay shows the adjustment in vaulting between the choir and the new nave.
The tympanum of the central portal.
Vézelay
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Vézelay is a commune in the department of Yonne in the north-central French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is a defensible hill town famous for Vézelay Abbey. The town and its 11th-century Roma
Vézelay Abbey
…Vézelay Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay) is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department of Yonne. It was constructed between 1120 and 1150. The Benedictine abbey church, now the Basilica of…
Vézelay Abbey
Vézelay Abbey
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the second crusade in Vézelay in 1146.
General view of the town