Abbaye de Saint-Gilles

A must visit landmark

The Abbey of Saint-Gilles is a Benedictine monastery founded by Saint Giles, it is included in the UNESCO Heritage List, as part of the World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in ...

Сlosed for renovation

The site is under major reconstruction, everything is covered by scaffolding and not worth a visit in such a condition

Church, crypt, ruins

Free entry to the church but a charge made to visit the huge crypt and the ruins of the choir. Self guided in the crypt, Guides to the ruins do not speak English. You can see most of the ruins without...

Abbey Saint-Gilles

We stopped there by chance on our way back from Aigues-Mortes to Arles. We just decided to take another route back and saw Saint-Gilles on the map. I had no idea that the town was home to the abbey. L...

Painfully neglected World Heritage site

This sadly neglected World Heritage site is not prepared to receive tourists. The square outside the abbey was empty except for pigeons and a sleepy café-bar. It was not possible to enter the building...