Map to visit the town

The Abbey's model: It can be seen at the Tourist Information Centre. It is a reproduction of the Abbey as it used to be. IT is constituted as the other romanesque's churches: a choir with a vast ambulatory and seven radiating chapels, a transept, a nave, low sides preceding a huge narthex and seven bell-towers.

 

The Bell-Tower: It is squared from its base to the birth of the arrow (42 meters high).

Possibility to go up to the bell-tower during the "journées du Patrimoine" (beginig of June and mid-September).

 

The Nave:  Witnesses of the high parts of the naves still can be seen on the North side of the bell-tower. The South wall, razed at half-high and bared of its facing, remain on all its high and shows the stack's separation.

 

The crypt:  It is now under the road RN 151 and is the perfect reproduction of the superior churc's map. In July 2000 the crypt began to be cleared by a site of young voluntary workers. But for safety measures, the crypt is not opened to the public.

 

The Cloister:  The remains dated from the XIVth century. The cloister develops itself on the South side of the church, inside the limits imposed by the "fence", surrounding wall which isolated the monks from the outside world. The cloister was restaured and showed to advantages. Today, it is a privileged area to the organization of plays or concerts during the summer.

 

The "Pont-Perrin"'s door: It wasthe principal entrance when we arrived from Chateauroux, it did not have a drawbridge.

The pillars of the old bridge still can be seen. This door opened on the principal street which was a busy shopping street. The four towers which circled the door had disappeared. The door is dated from the XVth century.