Abbey Cloisters, St Guilhem le Desert, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

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Fragments of the abbey may be found all over the region, and even much further away where in the Cloisters museum, north of New York (part of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art), you can see some of those columns of the cloister dating from before 1206. The cumulative damage of these various acts of vandalism was so severe that it is now impossible to determine the number and sequence of its columns - or even the dimensions of the cloister

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Size: 5670px × 3969px
Location: St Guilhem le Desert, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Photo credit: © George Munday / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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