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    Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ɡijɛm lə dezɛʁ] or [sɛ̃ ɡilɛm lə dezɛʁ]; Occitan: Sant Guilhèm dau Desèrt) is a commune in the Hérault...
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    Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert Abbey or Gellone Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault in France. It was founded in 804 by an Aquitanian...
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    Mont-Saint-Michel (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland commune...
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    from the Ummayads. In 804, he founded the abbey in Gellone (now Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert) near Lodève in the diocese of Maguelonne. He granted property...
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    abbeys in Catalonia and France. Parts from Sant Miquel de Cuixà, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Bonnefont-en-Comminges, Trie-sur-Baïse and Froville were disassembled...
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    Heritage Sites : Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert Abbey, Canal du Midi and Causses and Cévennes 2 Great sites in France : Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert and Gorges de l'Hérault...
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    provided a link between the abbey at Aniane and the Gellone Abbey at Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. Though subsequently widened and raised several metres around 1770...
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    Nationale de France, shelfmark Latin 12048. It is recorded in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert Abbey at the start of the 9th century. Its style is directly influenced...
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    been done by any but Saint-Sernin's own architect or his favored pupil", but finished much earlier. In 1860, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc restored the church...
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  • village of the same name, now Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault, France Gellone river, a river in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault, France William of Gellone...
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    Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat: church Saint-Léonard Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert: former abbey de Gellone Aniane/Saint-Jean-de-Fos: Pont du Diable Saint-Gilles-du-Gard: former...
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    in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. Romanesque house in Cluny. The house of the Vicomte of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, (1125). House in the village of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert...
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  • Baume-les-Messieurs Château-Chalon Val-d'Oise La Roche-Guyon Barbizon Aude Lagrasse Gard Aiguèze La Roque-sur-Cèze Hérault Minerve Olargues Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert...
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    of Bordeaux (French: Cathédrale-Primatiale Saint-André de Bordeaux), is a Catholic church dedicated to Saint Andrew and located in Bordeaux, France. It...
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    since 2022 Nir Oz, Israel, since 2024 The old bridge Map Saint-Nazaire cathedral Le domaine de Saint-Jean-d'Aureilhan, neo-Gothic-style tower (19th century)...
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    list of 20 of the most beautiful villages in France. The two were Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert with "one of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in...
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    de Landes de Saint Palais, hôtel Flottes de Sebazan, hôtel d'Alfonce, hôtel Malibran, hôtel l'Epine, hôtel Grasset. The Collégiale Saint-Jean church (18th...
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    Saint-Jacques de Paris, Volume 1. Paris: Debuisson & Cie. p. xi. Jean-François Lagneau, "La restauration de la tour Saint-Jacques", Monumental (Les Éditions...
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    Sète (section Patron saint)
    saw the creation of "les Anges de la Rue". In 2016, a great wine spill occurred at the Nelson Château. In 1703, when the Saint-Louis church was consecrated...
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    The Benedictine abbey church, now the Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Saint Mary Magdalene), with its complex program of imagery in sculpted capitals...
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    Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone (Occitan: Vilanòva de Magalona) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in Southern France. Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone...
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    Saint Germain of Paris (Germanus), Bishop (576) Saint William of Gellone, built a monastery at Gellone in France, later named Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert...
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    mentioned in a document of 985, was founded under a local feudal dynasty, the Guilhem, who combined two hamlets and built a castle and walls around the united...
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    300 km (190 mi) from the Cagne site, in the Hérault River near Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. Neither population is considered invasive. Another species of...
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    infant Jesus; Saint John the Baptist; Saint James the Great and Saint Peter. The flèche as drawn by Viollet-le-Duc The flèche of Amiens Cathedral (16th...
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    through theft in 866. After unsuccessful attempts to acquire the relics of Saint Vincent of Saragossa and then the relics of St. Vincent Pompejac in Agen...
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    The Église Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand is a church in Poitiers, France. It was named after Hilary of Poitiers (Hilaire in French). The church dates back to...
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  • Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert or Abbaye de Gellone), monks, Diocese of Lodève (Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault) Saint-Hilaire Abbey (Abbaye de Saint-Hilaire)...
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    the principle of six tourist units along 180 km of coastline. Saint-Cyprien, Leucate - Le Barcarès, Gruissan, Cap d'Agde, La Grande Motte and Port Camargue...
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    of a swamp. Historical records however indicate that it was founded by Saint Didier, bishop of Cahors, in the middle of the 7th century. The establishment...
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