Saint Mary’s Lagrasse

Some views of the abbey

Geographical situation

Rebirth and long-term prospects

Building works

Urgent: the cloister

The roofs

The Roman apses

The gate of honour

The façades
and the court of honour

The southern transept

Creation of a monastic garden

Cultural influence

Visit the abbey

Cultural events

Cultural manifestations

Music

Jeanne Barbey

The enterprise of restoration, safeguarding and enhancement of the abbey which the ASMVAL Association has initiated has found a surprising and soul-stirring echo. A young woman, Jeanne BARBEY has, in effect, composed her first musical work in honour of the renaissance of the abbey – the "TE DEUM FOR LAGRASSE",

Listen to two extracts : N°1. N°2.

Order the CD online.

Organisation of colloquiums

Conforming to its statutes, the Association is developing a PÔLE of historic research and cultural development.

M. Odon Hurel

Tuesday 18 September 2007, conference with Mr. Odon Hurel, director of research at the CNRS, on the monk and historian Dom Jean Mabillon.

Saturday 15 March 2008,

- conference with Mr. André Bonnery, Professor emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Perpignan : Research and the layout of the Holy Sepulchre at the time of Constantine.

- conference with Mrs. Anne-Bénédicte Brandenburg, archaeologist :
The sculpture of late antiquity in Languedoc.