Abbaye de Cluny

abbey located in Saône-et-Loire, in France
Object location46° 26′ 03″ N, 4° 39′ 33″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapinfo
English: The Abbey of Cluny (or Cluni, or Clugny) was founded on 2 September 909 by the Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Auvergne, William I, who placed it under the immediate authority of Pope Sergius III. The Abbey and its constellation of dependencies soon came to exemplify the kind of religious life that was at the heart of 11th-century piety. The town of Cluny, in the modern-day department of Saône-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne, in east-central France, near Mâcon, grew round the former abbey, founded in a forested hunting reserve.