Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Villeneuve-lez-Nantes (Le Bignon, Loire-Atlantique, France)

Les Sorinières, France · built 1201

Villeneuve Abbey, dedicated to Our Lady, was a Cistercian monastery at the present-day Les Sorinières, near Nantes in Pays de la Loire (formerly in Brittany), France, founded in 1201 and dissolved in 1790, during the French Revolution. For many years after its foundation, the abbey was the principal burial place of the founder's family. The main surviving building, also known as the Château de Villeneuve, is now a hotel.

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