Vézelay Abbey
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Vézelay Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay) is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department of Yonne. It was constructed between 1120 and 1150. The Benedictine abbey church, now the Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Saint Mary Magdalene), with its complex program of imagery in sculpted capitals and portals, is one of the great masterpieces of Burgundian Romanesque art and architecture.[1] Sacked by the Huguenots in 1569, the building suffered neglect in the 17th and the 18th centuries and some further damage during the period of the French Revolution.[2]
UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Location | Burgundy, France |
Criteria | Cultural: i, vi |
Reference | 84 |
Inscription | 1979 (3rd Session) |
Area | 183 ha |
Buffer zone | 18,373 ha |
Website | www |
Coordinates | 47°27′59″N 3°44′55″E |
The church and hill at Vézelay were added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1979 because of their importance in medieval Christianity and outstanding architecture.[1]
Relics of Mary Magdalene can be seen inside the Basilica.