Abbaye de l'Ile Chauvet

On an island in the marsh, is a Benedictine abbey of the twelfth century ... The Romanesque church, with its magnificent gate opens onto the courtyard with the well at the time. The convent buildings and the abbey suffered during the Hundred Years War in the fourteenth century and during the wars of religion in the sixteenth century. In 1680, the abbey was restored by the Camaldolese which will remain until 1779. This former monastery today interesting architectural remains with the Benedictine dormitory, kitchen and bread oven and pantry.