Arthous Change horizon and mountains for a break in the Pyrenean foothills on the town of Hastings in the Moors at the edge of Atlantic Pyrenees, the village owes its name to the time these territories were English.
Former Abbey of Saint Mary is ideally located close to the two mountain streams gathered on the road to Spain, it is a foundation Premonstratensian Case-God of the Diocese of Auch.
Founded in 1160 thanks to the favor of the King of England and the Viscount of Bearn she had a very great prosperity evidenced again the dazzling quality of the building, saved from ruin by a skillful restoration because, greatness and prosperity, the buildings were transformed after the revolution in farm buildings and enjoyed a great disrepair.
The site of the old abbey is now a cultural and exhibition and houses a small archaeological museum of great interest in the buildings of the seventeenth and convent around the ancient monastery now disappeared.
I will start the visit as often in the circumvention of the building remarkable length (32.40 meters) and the perfect balance of his side which I will more fully in the notes below. The whole is sober and harmonious, the skill of the architect was able to make it almost invisible to the eye strong natural slope of land that the building crown with grace.
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