Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Aniane

As we had met friends, we needed a little more room over the first days, so we chose a chambres d'hôtes in Aniane. I had crossed the small town, known since Saint Benedict of Aniane, last year, heading to Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. The stay in "Accent Sud" was very enjoyable, there was even a pool. Merci beaucoup, Robert! www.accentsud.com/

The light-flooded nave of the 17th century baroque church, built where around 780 Benedict of Aniane founded a "reform-monastry". Benedict had sucess, gained influence and founded and reformed a number of monasteries. 817 he headed a council of abbots at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), creating a "Codex regularum" binding on all abbey within the Carolingian Empire. Charlemagnes´son "Louis the Pious", his friend and patron built Marmoutier (Maursmünster) Abbey for Benedict in Alsace, that is where we "met" him earlier this year. Benedict died at Kornelimuenster, a monastery next to Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) in 821. He reformed the order, Benedict of Nursia had created around 530, and so gave it a base for the infuencve it had over the next centuries. The old monastry was destroyed during the Wars of Relgions, rebuilt in the 17th century and "remodeled" into a prison after the French Revolution, but at least the place is still the same.

The 17th century baroque facade of the former abbey church in Aniane does not look spectacular. The spectacluar is the place. Benedict of Aniane founded a "reform-monastry" here. He had sucess, gained influence and founded and reformed a number of monasteries. 817 he headed a council of abbots at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), creating a "Codex regularum" binding on all abbey within the Carolingian Empire. Charlemagnes´ son "Louis the Pious", his friend and patron built Marmoutier (Maursmünster) Abbey for Benedict in Alsace, that is where we "met" him earlier this year. Benedict died at Kornelimünster, a monastery next to Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) in 821. He reformed the order, Benedict of Nursia had created around 530, and so gave it a base for the influence it had over the next centuries. The old monastry was totally destroyed during the War of Relgions, rebuilt in the 17th century and "remodeled" into a prison after the French Revolution, but at least the place is still the same.