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Cluny Abbey
Cluny Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, France, founded in 910 and dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. Its third church (Cluny III) was a vast Romanesque basilica that became the largest church in Europe until the 16th century. The complex was sacked during the French Revolution and mostly destroyed; only small portions survive today.
First raised
AD 909
Its prime
1130
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1130
The shape it held in its prime.
A vast Romanesque monastic complex of warm beige ashlar stone: a gigantic basilica mass with thick walls, rounded arches and many towers rising above long two‑storey monastic ranges. Red clay tile roofs cover low domestic ranges; conical and pyramidal rooflines top the taller tower shafts. Repetitive rows of small arched windows and heavy masonry buttresses define the silhouette; broad gravel forecourts, clipped hedges and planted beds lie before the great stone mass.
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5 places to explore in 1130.
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