Saint Winwaloe Abbey
France /
Bretagne /
Landevennec /
rue de l'Abbaye
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/ Bretagne
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France / World / Bretagne / Finistère / Châteaulin / Crozon
monastery, Order of Saint Benedict, listed building / architectural heritage
Abbey of Brittany. Founded in 490 CE by Saint Winwaloe (in French as Saint Guénolé, in Breton as Saint Gwennole, in Picard as Saint Walloy) according to the Scotian Monastic Rule. Later became Benedictine. Pillaged and burned by the Vikings in 913. Ruins remain and can be visited. Later rebuilt, disbanded during the French Revolution.
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Present abbey (Benedictine) opened in 1958.
abbaye-landevennec.cef.fr/
Present abbey (Benedictine) opened in 1958.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landévennec_Abbey
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°17'13"N 4°16'7"W
- Monastère de Saint-François de Cuburien 47 km
- Maillezais Cathedral 340 km
- Sablonceaux Abbey 385 km
- Abbaye Notre-Dame de Maylis 581 km
- Monastery Spanish 596 km
- Sobrado dos Monxes Abbey 653 km
- Cartuja de Miraflores 664 km
- Abadia Retuerta Vineyards 741 km
- Monastery of Aula Dei 778 km
- Monasterio of Santa Maria de Sigena 804 km
- Landévennec Ship Graveyard 0.7 km
- Île de Térénez 0.9 km
- New Térénez Bridge 2 km
- Old Térénez Bridge 2.1 km
- Water tower 5.6 km
- Loperhet 11 km
- Plougastel-Daoulas 12 km
- Lanvéoc 13 km
- Finistère / Penn-ar Bed (29) 14 km
- Crozon 16 km