Abbaye Canoniale Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse
Riverside Romanesque abbey with a medieval cloister, painted abbot's chapel and forty-metre bell tower.
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This guide to Lagrasse Abbey, in the Corbières hills near Carcassonne, follows an anonymous twelfth-century sculptor who never signed a single stone, and the twentieth-century art historians who set out to name him anyway. It moves between a village church in Roussillon, the lost Romanesque doorway of this abbey, and the white marble fragments now kept upstairs. Best heard standing in the lapidary gallery, close enough to study a carved face.
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