Abbeys, Monasteries and Priories in the Pays-de-la-Loire

Eglise romane et gothique
49590 Fontevraud-l'Abbaye

The royal abbey of Fontevraud, founded in the 12th century in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye en Anjou, is an ancient Benedictine monastic city, famous for its necropolis of the Plantagenets and its exceptional medieval architecture, classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Eglise romane et gothique
85500 Les Herbiers

The Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Graintiere, founded in the 12th century at Les Herbiers, is an emblematic Romanesque vestige of Vendée, marked by a turbulent monastic history.

Eglise gothique
72170 Vivoin

The priory of Saint-Hippolyte de Vivoin, a former monastery of the 11th–12th centuries in Sarthe, combines Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture. Its classified prioral church and medieval cellar make it a major historical site of the Pays de la Loire.

Eglise gothique
85000 La Roche-sur-Yon

The abbey of the Fontenelles, a former 13th-century Augustinian abbey located in La Roche-sur-Yon in Vendée, is an angeline Gothic monument dedicated to the Virgin Mary, marked by a turbulent history between religious foundations and successive destruction.

Prieuré
49390 Vernoil

The Priory of Vernoil-le-Fourrier, located in Maine-et-Loire, is a religious building of the 15th and 18th centuries, partially listed as historical monuments in 1975.

Abbaye
85480 Bournezeau

Trizay Abbey, a former Cistercian abbey of the 12th, 14th and 18th centuries, is located in Bournezeau, Vendée, in the Pays de la Loire. Turned into a farm in the 19th century, it is now a partially preserved historical monument.

Monastère
72200 La Flèche

The monastery of the Visitation of La Flèche, founded in the middle of the seventeenth century in the Sarthe, is a former visiting convent maintaining its original claustral buildings (1651) and a remarkable carved wooden staircase, protected as Historic Monument since 1985.

Eglise romane
85330 Noirmoutier-en-l'Île

The abbey and church of Saint-Philibert de Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in Vendée, is a religious building from the 11th to the 19th century, mixing Romanesque and Gothic styles, built on the remains of an abbey founded around 677.