Vauluisant Abbey
Vauluisant Abbey, near Courgenay in the canton of Brienon-sur-Armançon, Yonne, France, is a Cistercian abbey founded in 1127 by a group of monks from Preuilly Abbey who came to settle between the forest of Othe and the forest of Lancy, an area near the borders of Île-de-France, Champagne and Burgundy that had come to be far from human habitation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ancienne grange cistercienne de Toucheboeuf and Polissoir du Sauvageon.
Ancienne grange cistercienne de Toucheboeuf
Building
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Ancienne grange cistercienne de Toucheboeuf is a building, which is situated 1 km south of Vauluisant Abbey.
Polissoir du Sauvageon
Archaeological site
Photo: Robin Chubret, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Polissoir du Sauvageon is an archaeological site, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Vauluisant Abbey.
Église Notre-Dame de Lailly
Church
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Église Notre-Dame de Lailly is a church, which is situated 2½ km south of Vauluisant Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lailly and Villeneuve-l’Archevêque.
Lailly
Village
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Lailly is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. Lailly is situated 2½ km south of Vauluisant Abbey.
Villeneuve-l’Archevêque
Village
Photo: Charley ANDREWS, CC0.
Villeneuve-l'Archevêque is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. Villeneuve-l’Archevêque is situated 3½ km southeast of Vauluisant Abbey.
Molinons
Village
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Molinons is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. Molinons is situated 4 km south of Vauluisant Abbey.
Vauluisant Abbey
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: abbey located in Yonne, in France
- Categories: Trappist monastery, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Courgenay, Arrondissement of Sens, Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.26536° or 48° 15′ 55″ northLongitude
3.53608° or 3° 32′ 10″ eastElevation
116 metres (381 feet)Open location code
8FW57G8P+4COpenStreetMap ID
node 465501134OpenStreetMap feature
historic=abbeyOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
11049334Wikidata ID
Q927334
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Vauluisant Abbey” goes by many names.
- French: “abbaye de Vauluisant”
- French: “Abbaye de Vauluisant”
- German: “Kloster Vauluisant”
- Russian: “Волюизанское аббатство”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vauluisant Abbey”. Photo: Keuk, CC BY-SA 3.0.