The Château de Talcy Monument This seigniorial château was constructed towards 1420, but the keep may have been built with some more ancient components. Contemporary with the great Renaissance châteaus of the Val de Loire, however, the Italian fashion and the search for decoration did not […]
[img_assist|nid=41094|title=|desc=|link=none|align=center|width=315|height=381] The Monument The Benedictine abbey of Cluny was the cradle of a reform which drastically changed the western monastic tradition. Founded in 910, this abbey answered directly to Rome and was under the authority of a line of exceptional abbots. At its height of its […]