Sénanque Abbey

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Abbazia di Nostra Signora di Sénanque (Occitano: abadiá de Senhanca, Francese: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque) è una abbazia Cistercense sita a pochi chilometri dal entro urbano di Gordes nel dipartimento del Vaucluse in Provenza, Francia.

Con le altre due Abbazie in Provenza: Silvacane e Le Thoronet è considerata una delle "Tre Sorelle Provenzali".

Sénanque Abbey (Occitan: abadiá de Senhanca, French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque) is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France.
Two other early Cistercian abbeys in Provence are Silvacane Abbey and Le Thoronet Abbey; with Sénanque, they are sometimes referred to as the "Three Sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales").

Silvacane Abbey

nobody@flickr.com (Cristi14) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:23:38 -0700

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Silvacane Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in the municipality of La Roque-d'Anthéron, Bouches-du-Rhône, in Provence, France. It was founded in or around 1144 as a daughter house of Morimond Abbey and was dissolved in 1443; it ceased to be an ecclesiastical property in the French Revolution. The church was acquired by the French state in 1846, the remaining buildings not until 1949. It is one of the three Cistercian abbeys in Provence known as the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales"), the other two being Sénanque Abbey and Le Thoronet Abbey; Silvacane was possibly the last-established.

The structures, of the late 12th and 13th centuries, are mostly Romanesque, with some Gothic elements. As is usual with early Cistercian buildings, the focus of the architecture is entirely on simplicity, austerity and harmony. The church interior, without decoration or distraction, is an outstanding example of 12th century Cistercian architecture.

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