Historic Village of Carennac

The construction of the church of Saint-Pierre was begun in the late 11th century as a priory of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Pierre of Moissac. In the 12th century, the open narthex (vestibule) was built. The time of the Hundred Years War brought destruction and plunder. Its traces of the church and the abbey buildings were largely repaired in the second half of the 15th century as part of extensive renovations.

The old houses of the village from the 15th and 16th centuries are grouped around the abbey, which has largely retained its medieval ambience and is well maintained. With the lane to the square in front of the church portal and the access to the abbey buildings, there is even a small center of old four-storey residential buildings, supplemented by even higher tower structures and recognizable fortifications. Together with the passageway-like arched passage through which the narthexportal of the church presents itself so photogenic, this is the primitive cell of a fortified village (Castrum) with small-town building structures. The church's fourth tower has battlements on its mural crown that point to a fortified tower. There are also remains of ramparts with round towers to the east of the church.

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