Gellone's abbey is registered on the World Patrimony of UNESCO.
A highly symbolic place of this past when we draw our roots. Gellone's abbey is built in the second half of the 11th century in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
. Within fifty years, raised itself(drew up itself) then, in front of eyes amazed by the dazzled pilgrims, the abbatial set(group).
Being forced to overcome natural difficulties, the builders will give evidence of a big ingenuity. In the final, this building of the first Romanic Art from the Languedoc shows itself of a rare harmony and a big rigour.
Crossing the centuries, forgotten by all and abandoned in this wild and put off place, the abbey fought against the insults of time and of the history. The first carried(worn) blow was the appointment from 1465 of abbots who were bishops of Lodève
and whose only purpose was to pull(fire) the biggest profit of this abbey.
Already endommangé by the bag of the Protestants in 1569, this monumental set(group) was saved from the ruin thanks to the work of Saint-Maur's congregation which lived there until the Revolution. The convent was destroyed(annulled) regrettably definitively by the work of a mason who sold him(it) stone to stone in Aniane's considerable fascinated by Romanic Art. After many events, the convent eventually crossed the Atlantic Ocean and is henceforth to "Cloister Museum of New York".
Here are 29 years old that the association "Friends de Saint-Guilhem" organizes a festival of music for the restoration of the organ and the development of the abbey church. Saint-Guilhem's organ builds a little bit before 1789 by J.P. Cavaille, is one of the most magnificent witnesses of the French invoice of organ.
Every summer the best organists come to glorify the beauty of its stamps and offer us the chefs-d'works of revisited past.
For any information or demand of documentation, please, contact the Office of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert's tourism.
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