Plénée-Jugon - Abbaye de Boquen

The Cistercian abbey was founded in 1137 by monks coming from the monastery of Bégard. They were led by a certain Adonias who was the first abbot here. It belonged to the filiation of Cîteaux Monastery. The monastery thrived until the 16th century, then much of the property was seized, oten by teh same noble families, who had four centuries earlier had made contributions to monastery.

The convent existed upto the French Revolution. The buildings were then used as a quarry.

In 1936 the monastery was revived by Trappists. They stayed until 1970.
The buildings got restaurated and rebuilt and since 2011 the ecumenical community "Chemin Neuf" took over the monastery.

The abbey church from the end of the 12th century is a sober, "cistercian" structure, just like Bernard of Clairvaux would have liked it. The choir got extended in the 14th and 15th centuries and got a large "Gothic" tracery window.