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

Name: Guided tour of Notre Dame de Quincy Abbey - Source of Life Water
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 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

of preference on reservation - gauge of 20 people - 6 euros - visit mainly outside -

Registration

0386758703 - 0768381743 abbayedequincy@wanadoo.fr Register / book: http://patrivia.net/visit/abbaye-notre-dame-de-quincy

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 .

About the location

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.