Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte

Name: Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Address: Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France

#2 among attractions in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte

Monastery, Romanesque architecture

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The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, located in the commune of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in the Manche department of France, was a Benedictine monastery founded in the 11th century by Néel de Néhou, Vicomte of Saint-Sauveur. The abbey has longstanding connections with the nearby Channel Islands. After being dissolved in the French Revolution it became in the 1830s the mother house of the Sisters of Christian Schools of Mercy, now the Congregation of Saint Marie-Madeleine Postel. ()

Local name: Abbaye de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte Coordinates: 49°22'56"N, 1°31'33"W

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Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Orglandes German war cemetery, Gorges family, Château de Crosville.

~1690 ftN
Forts and castles
Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
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4.6 miNE
Cemetery
Orglandes German war cemetery, Orglandes
117 min walk • Orglandes War Cemetery is a German World War II cemetery in Normandy, France. It is located on the northern edge of the village of Orglandes, about 30 km south east of Cherbourg and 7 km west of Sainte-Mère-Église on the Cotentin Peninsula. The burials come from summer 1944...
6 miSE
Nature, Canyon, Natural attraction
Gorges family
152 min walk • The Gorges family was an Anglo-Norman family with lands in the southwest of England. They obtained the manors of Wraxall, Somerset and Bradpole in Dorset.
1.9 miE
Forts and castles
Château de Crosville
49 min walk • The castle of Crosville-sur-Douve is an old fortified house, of the XVth century, reworked several times, which stands on the French commune of Crosville-sur-Douve in the north of the department of Manche, in the Normandy region.
6.5 miSE
Forts and castles
Château de Sainte-Suzanne
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6.8 miNE
Church
St. Peter's Church
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4.2 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mont de Doville
108 min walk • Mount Doville is a mountain of the Armorican Massif. It is located in the department of Manche, in the commune of Doville. It culminates at 129 m of altitude. The American soldiers defeated German positions there between July 3 and 10, 1944 during...
5.5 miE
Locality
Picauville
140 min walk • Picauville is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, the former communes of Amfreville, Cretteville, Gourbesville, Houtteville and Vindefontaine were merged into Picauville.
2.8 miSW
Memorial
War Memorial, Catteville
71 min walk • Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I.
4.3 miE
Locality
Les Moitiers-en-Bauptois
111 min walk • Les Moitiers-en-Bauptois is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the commune Picauville.
2.7 miN
Locality
Néhou
69 min walk • Néhou is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.