Abbaye Sainte Marie d'Arles

Disappointing

Most of the building is closed off to visitors, and at 4 euro each to enter into the cloister and the church seemed a bit much. We have entered many other churches across France that were much more sp...

Beautiful abbey with an interesting history

The abbey is quite lovely and well worth a visit. It has an interesting history in that outside is a sarcophogus from which flows fresh water - the origin of which has a number of explanations. The...

Nice complex, including mysterious sarcophagus

You enter from the tourism office directly in the nice flowered cloister, from which you can enter in the abbey, with its painted counter-absyde and baroque altars. Outside, a mysterious Visigoth sarc...

Wonderful architecture

Radio France holds regular concerts here with excellent musicians and the concert hall is a wonderful stone arched hall with an interesting acoustic, although somewhat uncomfortable chairs and the te...

Interesting abbey with lovely cloister

Amazing abbey that is well worth the visit. Incredible altars, beautiful cloister and some old frescoes. This abbey has an interesting history, "miraculous water", and is very well maintained. It is w...