Cherbourg-Octeville, Cherbourg-Octeville, France
Abbaye du Voeu Tickets & Tours
The Abbey of Notre-Dame du Vœu is a former monastery of Augustinian canons regular of Saint Victor which ruins stand on rue de l'Abbaye in the delegated municipality of Cherbourg-Octeville within the new town of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, in the Manche department, in the Normandy region. Founded in 1145 by Mathilde l'Emperesse, the abbey, far from the stronghold of Cherbourg, was plundered and burned many times, then abandoned by the religious before the French Revolution. After a first partial classification in 1913 (except for the portal classified in 1909), it has been under restoration since 1964 and fully classified as historical monuments by decree of September 9, 2002.
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