The Abbey

France / Languedoc-Roussillon / Raissac-sur-Lampy /
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The abbey still has very beautiful chapels with flat apses. Nothing is left apart from the remnants of the nave and, the transept and the chancel.

The lower part of the chancel dates from the end of the X111th. Beginning of the XIVth. Century, at the same time as the ceiling and the surrounding windows.

Some masks and decorative heads embellish some of the bracing stones. The matins stairs, “whose steps show the wear caused by the monks tread over the centuries as they assembled to sing the night service” (Jean BLANC) is at the far end of the south transept.
The place is located in Abbey of Villelongue
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Coordinates:   43°18'19"N   2°10'0"E
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