Grande-Sauve Abbey
Grande-Sauve Abbey or Sauve-Majeure Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery near the present village of La Sauve in the France department of the Gironde, in a region once heavily forested.Photo: Ophelia2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: abbey located in Gironde, in France
- Also known as: “Ancienne Abbaye de la Sauve-Majeure”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Town hall of La Sauve and Abbatiale de La Sauve.
Town hall of La Sauve
Town hall
Photo: Henrysalome, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Town hall of La Sauve is situated 140 metres north of Grande-Sauve Abbey.
Église Saint-Pierre de La Sauve
Church
Photo: William Ellison, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Église Saint-Pierre de La Sauve is a church, which is situated 440 metres west of Grande-Sauve Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Créon and Saint-Léon.
Créon
Town
Photo: Ophelia2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Créon is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Créon is situated 3 km west of Grande-Sauve Abbey.
Saint-Léon
Village
Photo: William Ellison, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Léon is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Saint-Léon is situated 3 km east of Grande-Sauve Abbey.
Madirac
Village
Photo: William Ellison, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Madirac is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Madirac is situated 7 km west of Grande-Sauve Abbey.
Grande-Sauve Abbey
- Categories: abbey, monastery, tourism, historic site, and tourist attraction
- Location: La Sauve, Arrondissement of Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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Latitude
44.76834° or 44° 46′ 6″ northLongitude
-0.31136° or 0° 18′ 41″ westElevation
98 metres (322 feet)Open location code
8CPXQM9Q+8FOpenStreetMap ID
way 313136672OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monasteryOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumGeoNames ID
11962199Wikidata ID
Q333984
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Grande-Sauve Abbey” goes by many names.
- Basque: “La Sauve-Majeureko abadetxea”
- Chinese: “拉索沃马热尔修道院”
- Czech: “Klášter La Sauve-Majeure”
- Dutch: “Abdij van Sauve-Majeure”
- French: “abbaye de La Sauve-Majeure”
- French: “Abbaye de La Sauve-Majeure”
- French: “abbaye de la Sauvemajeure”
- French: “Sauve-Majeure”
- German: “Abtei La Sauve-Majeure”
- Hungarian: “La Sauve-Majeure-i apátság”
- Italian: “abbazia di La Sauve-Majeure”
- Italian: “Abbazia di La Sauve-Majeure”
- Spanish: “Abadia de la Selva Mayor”
- Spanish: “Abadía de la Selva Mayor”
- Turkish: “Grande-Sauve Abbey”
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