Cluny. Abbey of Cluny France | With Captions

#cluny #clunyabbey #france #walkingtour Cluny Abbey of Cluny France Bourgogne-Franche-Comté With Captions Cluny Abbey is Benedictine monastery dedicated to St Peter and Paul and was founded in 910 by the Duke William I of Aquitaine. Over the centuries the Abbey grew as one of the most influential theological and religious centres. It has been considered that the Cluny Abbey was the mother house for more than 1000 monasteries and seat of the largest monastic order, the Cluniac Order. The Abbey went into decline in the late Middle Ages mainly for financial reasons. In the 15th century abbot Jean de Bourbon made efforts to solve rising problems, however, it was unable to reverse the downfall. The process has been accelerated by the religious wars in the 16th century. In the 18th century a vast building program was introduced in order to rebuild the monastery and to revive the glory and influence of the great Cluny Abbey and Cluniac order. So the medieval buildings were destroyed and new neoclassicals were raised. The French revolution put the final accord of the annihilation of once the greatest and most influential theological center in the Medieval Christian world - Cluny Abbey. In the 19th century remaining buildings were sold off. The town of Cluny developed thanks to the economic activities generated by the abbey. In Cluny you may see over 140 Medieval houses, mainly Romanesque style, built between the 11th and 14th centuries. Some of them still have their original facade decoration. 00:08 Cluny 00:48 St Marcel Church, 12th Century 04:53 Place Notre-Dame 05:49 Notre-Dame de Cluny Church, 12th Century 06:10 Tour des Fromages, 11th Century 11:12 Cluny Abbey, Abbaye de Cluny 11:54 Pope Gelasius' Palace 12:09 Abbott Hughes’ Hostelry, 11th Century 12:21 Monastery Building, 18th Century 12:41 Abbey Cloister 17:11 The Larder, (Food Storage Building) 22:23 Abbey Walls 22:46 Abbey Remnants 22:53 Clocher de l'Eau-Bénité (Holy Water Belfry), 12th Century 22:53 Clock Tower, 19th Century 30:45 Jean de Bourbon's Palace, (15th Century), Museum of Art and Archaeology 31:58 Gate of Honour, 12th Century 32:12 Medieval Town of Cluny, Houses built 11th-14th Century It was in the beggining of 2020. I had already bought tickets to visit in March France and Switzerland. I had not any clues that this trip would be the last one before the pandemic changed our lives forever. I did that long journey just before France had been put on lockdown. I arrived in Grenoble as my first stop:    • Grenoble. Winter Olympic Capital. World Fa...   Later the same day I went to Geneva and stayed there for a couple of days. All that time I travelled to Montreux    • Montreux  Switzerland      • Montreux Capital of Jazz Musuc. Switzerlan...   Laussanne    • Walking Laussanne Streets. Switzerland | W...   Geneva    • One Day in Geneva. Switzerland. Walking To...   My next stop was in beautiful city of Lyon    • Lyon. France. Walk across beautiful city o...   Near Lyon is Cluny where I stopped by for a while. The village rose around Abbey of Cluny once the most influential medieval monastery heavyly destroied by mobs during the French revolution    • Cluny. Abbey of Cluny France | With Captions   I kept on moving further on to the North to Dijon    • Dijon. France. A day trip | With Captions   and Paris    • Paris Big Bus Tours Hop-On Hop-Off Open To...   Thanks for watching Subscribe to my YouTube channel    / @travelwithrado   Click the bell in order to receive notifications for my new videos! Your support is important for me to further develop my channel! Hit the like button and don't forget to comment. Share this video with your friends on social networks. You may support me with an One-off Tip - https://ko-fi.com/radkoshopov Connect with me on social Facebook   / radko.shopov   Instagram   / radko.shopov   Twitter   / radkoshopov   LinkedIn   / radko-shopov-94b5a526