Abbaye de Caunes-Minervois
Benedictine abbey church with a Romanesque apse, marble chapels and a crypt of Carolingian remains.
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This guide to the Abbaye de Caunes-Minervois, near Carcassonne, follows four saints whose names a whole village still sings each June. It reaches back to peasants and a field by the river around the year nine eighty-two, and to the monks who decided what they had found. Historians have asked hard questions about those brothers ever since. Stand in the church square to begin, then step inside toward the apse.
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