Fontevraud-l'Abbaye

The royal abbey gave this Saumur-country village its name and its fame: it became the burial place of the Plantagenets, and the painted effigies of Henry II, Richard the Lionheart and Eleanor of Aquitaine still lie in the nave. The abbey lies in a valley where three brooks meet, inside the Loire Valley World Heritage area and the Loire-Anjou-Touraine natural park.

Highlights

• Fontevraud Abbey, dynastic burial place of the Plantagenets
• Painted effigies of Henry II, Richard the Lionheart and Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Saint Catherine's chapel and its lantern of the dead
• The church of Saint-Michel and the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Pitié
• The Saint-Mainbœuf spring feeding the old Lavoir des Roches

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (FR), Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (EN), Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (IT)), Wikivoyage (Fontevrault). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.