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This photo is the Senanque Abbey near Gordes. • Benva Chapel [area map] - This lovely little chapel sits in the woods beside the D50 road a couple of km west of Lorgues. The simple two-story building has a large covered porch with 16th-century frescos.
• Boscodon Abbey [area map] - 12th-century Dominican Abbey in the forest of the Haute Alpes, near the Lac de Serre Ponçon and Embrun.
• Chartreuse Durbon
• Favas Chapel [Bargemon Area Map] - The Favas Chapel sits beside the D19 road just 3 km west of Bargemon (direction Montferrat, Comps-sur-Artuby).
• Fontenay Abbey [area map]
• Ganagobie Monastery [Ganagobie Area Map] - The prieuré (monastery) was founded in the 10th century, owned first by the Bishops of Sisteron, and donated it to the Abbey of Cluny in 956. In the 12th century, the Benedictines built the church and the Romanesque cloistures. Up to the 14th century, a small group of about a dozen monks still worked the land and the nearby forest.
• Hilaire Abbey
• Lérins Abbey [Lerins Islands Area Map] - 5th-century abbey, 11th-century Cistercian abbey (St Honorat Monastery) in the Alpes-Maritimes, off the coast of Cannes.
• Notre-Dame Brue-Auriac [area map] - This 11th-century chapel and priory, on a small hill beside Brue-Auriac, is very picturesque. The chapel part is intact and restored, while the adjacent priory displays the original stone walls, shapes and window openings. The site is shaded by a grove of ancient trees, and sits on a hillside of vineyards with a great view.
• Notre-Dame de Valvert (Chapelle de)à Allos
• Notre-Dame des Fontaines (Chapelle)
• Notre-Dame du Revest Chapel [area map]
• Notre-Dame-Roquebrussanne [area map] - Medieval, above Roquebrussanne in the Var.
• Our Lady of the Annunciation
• Saint Cassien Hermitage
• Saint Eusèbe Abbey
• Saint Ferreol Hermitage [area map] - On the Ligurian/Roman site beside Lorgues in the Var.
• Saint Maximin Royal Convent [area map]
• Saint Paul-de-Mausole [area map] - 11th/12th century priory and monastery, and brief residence of Vincent Van Gogh
• Saint Pons Chapel
• Sainte Roseline Chapel [area map]
• Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
• Salagon Priory (Prieuré de Salagon) [area map]
• Senanque Abbey (Abbaye de Senanque) [Gordes Area Map] - 12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Vaucluse, near Gordes.
One of the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales") Cistercian abbeys.
• Silvacane Abbey (Abbaye de Silvacane) [area map] - Former 12th-century Cistercian monastery in the Bouches-du-Rhône, northwest of Aix-en-Provence.
One of the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales") Cistercian abbeys.
• Thoronet Abbey [area map] - 12th-century Cistercian abbey in the Var, between Brignoles and Draguignan.
One of the "three sisters of Provence" ("les trois soeurs provençales") Cistercian abbeys.
• Le Trinité Chapel [area map] - Trinité chapel is a tiny stone rectangle of a building sitting in a small copse alongside the Draguignan-Grasse road, south of Callas.
• Verne Chartreuse [area map] - A large, ancient monastery hidden in the thick forests of the Maures mountains west of Saint Tropez.
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