Abbeys, Monastères and Priories in Vendée

Abbey
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.

Romanesque Church
85240 Nieul-sur-l'Autise

Saint Vincent de Nieul-sur-l'Autise Abbey, founded in the 11th century, is a former Romanesque abbey located in Vendée, famous for its intact cloister and its role in the remediation of the Poitevin Marsh.

Abbey
85520 Jard-sur-Mer

The royal abbey of Notre-Dame de Lieu-Dieu, founded in the 12th century in Jard-sur-Mer (Vendée), is an ancient pre-showed abbey marked by looting and conversion into an agricultural farm in the 18th century.

Romanesque Church
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.

Gothic Church
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.

Gothic Church
85710 Bois-de-Céné

The Île-Chauvet Abbey, founded in the 12th century in Bois-de-Céné (Vendée), is a medieval Benedictine abbey, marked by architectural transformations and historical conflicts in the Pays de la Loire.

Abbey
85330 Noirmoutier-en-l'Île

The abbey of La Blanche, former Cistercian abbey of the 12th–15th centuries, is located in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île in Pays de la Loire. Founded in 1205, it illustrates the island monastic history of salt mining and Trappist reform, before becoming a private domain not open to the public.

Romanesque Church
85180 aux Sables-d'Olonne

Saint-Jean d'Orbestier Abbey, founded in the 12th century in Les Sables-d'Olonne, is an ancient Benedictine abbey in ruins, classified as a historical monument in 1935 in the Vendée department.