Guided tour of Notre Dame de Quincy Abbey - Source of Life Water

Name: Visite guidée Abbaye Notre Dame de Quincy - Eau source de Vie
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quincy

guided tour of the buildings and a particular emphasis on the importance of water for the implantation of cistercians.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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SCI de l'Abbaye de Quincy

The choice of the site of any Cistercian abbey must take into account the possibilities of water supply because even before building a monastery [...], the Cistercians said to develop the sites of their perennial implantation. Their first concern was water» Paul Benoit .

À propos du lieu

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quincy

89430 Tanlay

Yonne
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

The Cistercian Abbey of Quincy was founded in 1133 as the daughter of Pontigny, on a small tributary of the Armançon. All the buildings - the hotel, the abbey house, the mills and some of the claustral buildings - reflect all the periods from the 12th to the 15th century.