Cluny Abbey
Cluny, France
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
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Cluny Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France, founded in 910 by Duke William I of Aquitaine. Built in the Romanesque style, its last of three successive churches, completed in the early 12th century, was the world's largest church until the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The abbey originated the Cluniac Reforms and led a large network of monasteries across Western Europe until it was sacked and mostly destroyed during the French Revolution in 1790.
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- Built
- Type
- abbey, hospital, benedictine abbey
- Heritage
- classified historical monument
- Place
- Cluny, France
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