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Chateau de Bussy-Rabutin
Submitted by Editors on October 14, 2008 - 11:26am.Chateau de Bussy-Rabutin
The Abbey of Cluny
Submitted by Editors on October 14, 2008 - 11:21am.
- The Monument
The Benedictine abbey of Cluny was the cradle of a reform which drastically changed the western monastic tradition. Founded in 910, this abbey answered directly to Rome and was under the authority of a line of exceptional abbots. At its height of its influence in the 12th century, it was at the head of an "empire" that counted 10,000 monks.
It was at this time, around 1088, that construction began on the third abbey church (Cluny III). Abbot Hugues de Semur (1049-1109) decided to build a huge church, 187 metres long, which remained the longest church in Christendom until the construction of Saint Peter’s in Rome.
Macon
Submitted by Editors on October 8, 2008 - 5:46am.
