This stark Burgundian monastery was founded by St Bernard in 1119. With its church, cloister, refectory, sleeping quarters, bakery and iron works, it is an excellent illustration of the ideal of self-sufficiency as practised by the earliest communities of Cistercian monks.
The perfection of the proportions, the rigour of the wall openings and the science of the vaultings, the beauty of the wall masonry which places impeccable courses of ashlar side by side with crude rough-cut rubble constitute the value of this architecture.
France
Department of Côte d'Or, Burgundy Region
Date of Inscription: 1981
Minor boundary modification inscribed year: 2007
Ref: 165bis Source-(Unesco.Org)
Thank you Claire for the beautiful card and stamps.
2018 Stamp- Marianne- Europe
2018 Stamp- Marianne- Europe
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