The cathedral in Saintes was dedicated to Saint Peter (Saint Pierre). Simon, nicknamed Petrus (rock), was a fisherman on Lake Genesareth when he - together with his brother Andreas - …
A former Benedictine abbey created in 1047, Abbaye-aux-Dames was the first women's monastery in Saintonge. These powerful women were nuns, that is to say, nuns living cloistered and having taken …
The Donjon de Pons is a 30-meter-high medieval defense tower and - next to the Donjon of Niort - one of the finest examples of a Romanesque donjon in western …