Officially known as the Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux, construction on the structure began in A.D. 1133 in northern Spain and was completed eight years later. It was inhabited by monks for ...

Après la Révolution française, en 1804, sous Napoléon, les moines sont définitivement chassés de Clairvaux, comme de toutes les abbayes de France. La plus grande abbaye devient la plus ...

When all that reinvention gets your head spinning, take a contemplative walk around the cloisters of this twelfth-century monastery -- the oldest structure around by a long shot. Like most things ...