After leaving Draguignan, we had one night’s accommodation to fill in before getting to our next week’s resting place. We detoured to see this old Cistercian Abbey near Lorgues, built between 1160 and 1230; it is still in excellent condition, and we were both very taken with its simplistic beauty. I could really feel its past. I entered one tiny room and had an immediate sense of presence. Linz later told me it was the private ‘cell’ used by the Abbot (the boss), how interesting.
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I once threatened to design a whole holiday around visiting Cistercian abbeys. They all have that amazing simplicity, usually one statue only of the virgin. Well maybe not all, the Bavarian ones stepped outside the simple and went for the Baroque and Roccoco.
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