Abbeys, Monasteries and Priories in the Jura

39110 Salins-les-Bains

The Hotel de l'Officier Général des Salines, also known as Maison de l'Abbaye, is a 15th, 17th and 18th century building located in Salins-les-Bains, Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Ranked a Historical Monument, it illustrates the civil architecture associated with the exploitation of salt.

39160 Saint-Amour

The Annonciades monastery, founded in the 17th century in Saint-Amour in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, is a former partially preserved convent, with cloister and church remains.

39210 Baume-les-Messieurs

The former Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Baume-les-Messieurs, founded in the 9th century in the Jura, is a Benedictine jewel marked by its link with Cluny, its Romanesque and Gothic architecture, and its turbulent history until the Revolution.

Monastery
39800 Poligny

The monastery Sainte-Claire de Poligny, founded in the 15th century, is a convent of clarisses located in Poligny in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, marked by reconstructions in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries after fires and the Revolution.

Ermitage
39600 Port-Lesney

The Hermitage Notre-Dame de Lorette, located in Port-Lesney in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, is a religious complex of the 15th and 17th centuries, composed of a chapel and a residential building, classified as a Historical Monument.

Chartreuse
39270 Onoz

The Chartreuse de Vaucluse, an 18th-century Cartus Abbey in Onoz (Jura), was swallowed in 1968 by Lake Vouglans. Only its rebuilt gate and pavilions remain today.

Abbey
39160 Saint-Amour

The Abbey of Saint-Amour, built in the 17th and 18th centuries, is an ancient religious monument located in the Jura, Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Today partially preserved, it houses a classified vaulted room.

Priory
39800 Vaux-sur-Poligny

The Priory of Notre-Dame de Vaux-sur-Poligny, a former Benedictine monastery of the eleventh century transformed into a college, stands in a remote Jurassian near Poligny, in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Its history combines Clunisian spirituality and successive reconstructions until the 19th century.