Bassac
Bassac is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. It has Bassac Abbey, founded more than 1000 years ago, partially restored in the late 20th century, and sold in 2015 to a trust for renovation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 532 residents
- Description: commune in Charente, France
- Also known as: “16032” and “Bassac, Charente”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bassac Abbey and Château de Triac.
Bassac Abbey
Church
Photo: JLPC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bassac Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Bassac, Charente, France, in the former diocese of Saintes. The abbey was founded in 1002 by Wardrade Lorichès, count of la Marche and first known Lord of Jarnac, and his wife Rixendis on their return from a pilgrimage to Rome.
Église Saint-Martin de Graves
Church
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Église Saint-Martin de Graves is a church.
Bassac
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement of Cognac, Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bassac” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bassac”
- Albanian: “Bassac, Charente”
- Albanian: “Bassac”
- Aragonese: “Bassac”
- Armenian: “Բասակ”
- Arpitan: “Bassac”
- Asturian: “Bassac”
- Bambara: “Bassac”
- Basque: “Bassac”
- Bavarian: “Bassac”
- Breton: “Bassac”
- Cajun French: “Bassac”
- Catalan: “Bassac”
- Cebuano: “Bassac”
- Chechen: “Бассак (коммуна)”
- Chechen: “Бассак”
- Chinese: “Bassac, Charente”
- Chinese: “Bassac”
- Chinese: “巴萨克”
- Chinese: “巴薩克”
- Corsican: “Bassac”
- Croatian: “Bassac”
- Czech: “Bassac”
- Danish: “Bassac”
- Dutch: “Bassac (Frankrijk)”
- Dutch: “Bassac”
- Esperanto: “Bassac”
- Estonian: “Bassac”
- Faroese: “Bassac”
- Finnish: “Bassac”
- French: “Bassac”
- Friulian: “Bassac”
- Galician: “Bassac”
- German: “Bassac”
- Hungarian: “Bassac”
- Icelandic: “Bassac”
- Ido: “Bassac”
- Indonesian: “Bassac”
- Interlingua: “Bassac”
- Interlingue: “Bassac”
- Irish: “Bassac”
- Italian: “Bassac”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Bassac”
- Kabyle: “Bassac”
- Kalaallisut: “Bassac”
- Kongo: “Bassac”
- Kurdish: “Bassac, Charente”
- Kurdish: “Bassac”
- Ladin: “Bassac”
- Latin: “Bassac”
- Latvian: “Bassac”
- Ligurian: “Bassac”
- Limburgan: “Bassac”
- Lithuanian: “Bassac”
- Low German: “Bassac”
- Luxembourgish: “Bassac”
- Mainfränkisch: “Bassac”
- Malagasy: “Bassac”
- Malay: “Bassac, Charente”
- Malay: “Bassac”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bassac”
- Minangkabau: “Bassac”
- Narom: “Bassac”
- Neapolitan: “Bassac”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bassac”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bassac”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Baçac”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bassac”
- Papiamento: “Bassac”
- Persian: “باساک، شارونت”
- Picard: “Bassac”
- Piemontese: “Bassac”
- Polish: “Bassac”
- Portuguese: “Bassac”
- Prussian: “Bassac”
- Romagnol: “Bassac”
- Romanian: “Bassac, Charente”
- Romanian: “Bassac”
- Romansh: “Bassac”
- Russian: “Бассак”
- Sardinian: “Bassac”
- Scots: “Bassac”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bassac”
- Serbian: “Basak”
- Serbian: “Bassac”
- Serbian: “Басак”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bassac”
- Sicilian: “Bassac”
- Slovak: “Bassac”
- Spanish: “Bassac”
- Swahili: “Bassac”
- Swedish: “Bassac, Charente”
- Swedish: “Bassac”
- Swiss German: “Bassac”
- Tatar: “Бассак (коммуна)”
- Tatar: “Бассак”
- Turkish: “Bassac, Charente”
- Turkish: “Bassac”
- Ukrainian: “Басак”
- Ukrainian: “Бассак”
- Uzbek: “Bassac”
- Venetian: “Bassac”
- Vietnamese: “Bassac, Charente”
- Vietnamese: “Bassac”
- Vlaams: “Bassac”
- Volapük: “Bassac”
- Walloon: “Bassac”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bassac, Charente”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bassac”
- Welsh: “Bassac”
- Wolof: “Bassac”
- Yue Chinese: “Bassac”
- Zulu: “Bassac”
- “Bassac”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Château de Jarnac and Jarnac-Charente Railway Station.
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