Abbaye de Lérins
Island abbey with a medieval fortified tower-monastery, cloisters and monks' vineyards by the sea.
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This guide to the Abbaye de Lérins, on Île Saint-Honorat off Cannes, is about the stone tower on the southern shore and the monks who built a fortress to live in. It moves from raiders landing in the eighth century to an eleventh-century abbot laying a refuge on Roman foundations, and to fifteenth-century builders working on a tight budget. Best heard standing on the rocks facing the raised doorway.
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