Fontfroide Abbey
Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne near to the Spanish border. It was founded in 1093 by Aimery I, Viscount of Narbonne, but remained poor and obscure, and needed to be re-founded by Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: cistercian abbey located near Narbonne, in Aude department of France
- Address: Narbonne
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Église de l’abbaye de Fontfroide and Château de Saint-Martin de Toques.
Église de l’abbaye de Fontfroide
Church
Photo: CARPEDIEM13, CC BY 3.0.
Église de l’abbaye de Fontfroide is a church.
Château de Saint-Martin de Toques
Castle
Photo: ArnoLagrange, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Château de Saint-Martin de Toques is a partly ruined, mountaintop castle in the Bizanet commune in the Aude département of southern France. Construction of the castle dates to the 12th and 14th centuries. Château de Saint-Martin de Toques is situated 2½ km west of Fontfroide Abbey.
Fontfroide Abbey
- Categories: Cistercian monastery, building, monastery, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Narbonne, Arrondissement of Narbonne, Aude, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.12763° or 43° 7′ 40″ northLongitude
2.89859° or 2° 53′ 55″ eastElevation
125 metres (410 feet)Inception
12th centuryOpen location code
8FM44VHX+3COpenStreetMap ID
node 281291253OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monasteryOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
9412880Wikidata ID
Q334263
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Ukrainian—“Fontfroide Abbey” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Абатство Фонфроад”
- Catalan: “Abadia de Fontfreda”
- Catalan: “Abadia de Fontfroide”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Fontfreda”
- Chinese: “丰弗鲁瓦德圣玛丽修道院”
- Chinese: “豐弗魯瓦德聖瑪麗修道院”
- Czech: “Klášter Fontfroide”
- Dutch: “Abdij Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide”
- French: “abbaye de Fontfroide de Narbonne”
- French: “abbaye de Fontfroide”
- French: “Abbaye de Fontfroide”
- French: “abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide”
- French: “Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide”
- French: “Fontfroide”
- German: “Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide”
- German: “Abtei Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide”
- German: “Fontfroide”
- Hebrew: “מנזר פונפרואד”
- Italian: “abbazia di Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide”
- Japanese: “フォントフロイデ修道院”
- Japanese: “フォンフロワド修道院”
- Japanese: “ヨーロッパ・シトー会修道院・遺跡憲章支持派”
- Latin: “Fons Frigidus (abbatia)”
- Latin: “Fons Frigidus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fontfroide Abbey”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Abadiá de Fontfreja”
- Portuguese: “Abadia de fontfroide”
- Portuguese: “Abadia de Fontfroide”
- Russian: “Фонфруад (аббатство)”
- Russian: “Фонфруад”
- Scots: “Fontfroide”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Fontfroide”
- Spanish: “Abadia de fontfreda”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Fontfreda”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Fontfreda”
- Spanish: “Abadia de fontfroide”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Fontfroide”
- Spanish: “abadía de Fontfroide”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Fontfroide”
- Spanish: “Abadia de la fontfroide”
- Spanish: “Abadia de la Fontfroide”
- Spanish: “Abadía de la Fontfroide”
- Spanish: “Fontfroide”
- Ukrainian: “Фонфруад”
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