Abbaye St Maurice

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The ruins of an old abbey on the banks of the River Laïta. It’s set in about 120ha of woods etc. There’s not much left in the way of  buildings; only the orangery, the Tithe Barn, the Chapter House and the Abbot’s house remain, together with a ruined wall from the main abbey. The Orangery and the Abbot's house have good exhibitions, and in the latter we saw live CCTV of Greater Horseshoe Bats roosting in the loft.

We had a really nice lunch in a crêperie on the banks of the river while we waited for the abbey grounds to open.

Afterwards we drove to a nearby bridge over the Laïta, where there’s a memorial to those who fell during the Libreration.

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