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Based in 1146, the abbey of Thoronet, one of three "Provençal sisters" with Sénaque and Silvacane, represents among most remarkable abbey exits of the Cistercian order.
This monastic set(group), built in the heart of woody hills, presents the characters of the Provençal Romanic style but already, also, the first Gothic elements with its vaults on intersections of the ribs. The austere beauty of its architecture is conferred on him(her) by the purity of the propositions, the geometrical simplicity of
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volumes, the quasi-total absence of ornaments, finally by the rigour the equipment of the stone ; beauty without subtlety corresponding to the Cistercian spirituality such as St Bernard lauded him(it).
The Cistercian builders, renowned for having granted(tuned) an extreme care to the choice and to the application of stones knew how to also reconcile in a exemplary way the functional and the spiritual, the come Fernand Pouillon's novel "Pierre Sauvages" evokes him(it) admirably famous.
State ownership, the abbey of Thoronet is managed by the national Box of ancient memorials and sites. The abbey the reputation of which exceeds widely the national borders, receives every year about 120 000 guests, specialists and general public, French and foreign.
Being opened every day except January 1-st, on May 1-st, in November 11 and December 25.
from April 1-st till September 30 from 9 o'clock till 19 o'clock (9 hours at 12 and 14 o'clock at 19 o'clock on Sundays), from October 1-st till March 31 from 10 o'clock till 13 o'clock and from 14 o'clock till 17 o'clock. religious Offices in the abbey church Sunday at 12. 00
Rates and information with the Abbey of Thoronet.
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