Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

The chapel "Saint-Géniès de Litenis" is located south of Saint-Jean-de-Fos. Today very isolated it was once the center of a settlement near a ford of the river Herault. In 804 the place was given by Charlemagne to his cousin Guillaume de Gellone (Saint Guilhem) . The church of today was erected within the 11th century on a spot, where a paleochristian sanctuary had been. As the settlement around the church got abandoned, the unattended church crumbled and after the French Revolution it was sold as a quarry. So half of the nave and the apse got demolished. The reconstruction started end of the 19th century. Unfortunately the chapel was locked.

The chapel "Saint-Géniès de Litenis" is located south of Saint-Jean-de-Fos. Today very isolated it was once the center of a settlement near a ford of the river Herault. In 804 the place was given by Charlemagne to his cousin Guillaume de Gellone (Saint Guilhem) . The church of today was erected within the 11th century on a spot, where a paleochristian sanctuary had been. As the settlement around the church got abandoned, the unattended church crumbled and after the French Revolution it was sold as a quarry. So half of the nave and the apse got demolished. The reconstruction started end of the 19th century. Unfortunately the chapel was locked.

The chapel "Saint-Géniès de Litenis" is located south of Saint-Jean-de-Fos. Today very isolated it was once the center of a settlement near a ford of the river Herault. In 804 the place was given by Charlemagne to his cousin Guillaume de Gellone (Saint Guilhem) . The church of today was erected within the 11th century on a spot, where a paleochristian sanctuary had been. As the settlement around the church got abandoned, the unattended church crumbled and after the French Revolution it was sold as a quarry. So half of the nave and the apse got demolished. The reconstruction started end of the 19th century. Unfortunately the chapel was locked.