Priory of St. Cosmas
The Priory of St. Cosmas or the Priory of Ronsard is a former priory built upon an island in the river Loire at La Riche near Tours in Touraine, founded in the 11th century and dedicated to St.Photo: Duch.seb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Monastery
- Description: priory located in Indre-et-Loire, in France
- Also known as: “Prieure de Saint-Cosme” and “Prieuré de Saint-Cosme”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Château de Plessis-lez-Tours and Église Sainte-Anne de La Riche.
Château de Plessis-lez-Tours
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The royal Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours is the remains of a late Gothic château located in the town of La Riche in the Indre-et-Loire department, in the Loire Valley of France. Château de Plessis-lez-Tours is situated 1 km southeast of Priory of St. Cosmas.
Église Sainte-Anne de La Riche
Church
Photo: Dcom lariche, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Église Sainte-Anne de La Riche is a church, which is situated 610 metres east of Priory of St. Cosmas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tours and Sanitas.
Tours
Photo: Pierre-Antoine Demachy, Public domain.
Tours is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metropolitan area was 516,973.
Sanitas
Suburb
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Sanitas is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km east of Priory of St. Cosmas.
Joué-lès-Tours
Town
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Joué-lès-Tours is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, central France. It is the largest suburb of the city of Tours, and is adjacent to it on the southwest. Joué-lès-Tours is situated 4½ km south of Priory of St. Cosmas.
Priory of St. Cosmas
- Categories: priory and religion
- Location: La Riche, Arrondissement of Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Indonesian—“Priory of St. Cosmas” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “图尔圣科姆修道院”
- Dutch: “Sint-Cosmaspriorij”
- French: “prieure de Saint-Cosme”
- French: “prieuré de Saint-Cosme”
- French: “Prieuré Saint-Cosme de Tours”
- German: “Priorei St. Cosmas”
- Indonesian: “Priorat Saint-Cosme”
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