Cluny Attractions
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The quiet little town of Cluny (pop. 4,371), northwest of Mâcon, grew up round the celebrated Benedictine abbey, mother house of the reforming Cluniac order.
The abbey of Cluny (Cluniacum) was founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine on the site of a Franconian estate, and became from its earliest years the starting point and center of a great reform of the church which set out to effect a revival of monasticism, which had entered a state of crisis and to promote monastic life in accordance with the rules laid down by St Benedict. The impulse that went out from Cluny led to the reform of existing monastic houses and the foundation of new ones, until there were some 2,000 Cluniac houses all over western Europe.
The abbey of Cluny (Cluniacum) was founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine on the site of a Franconian estate, and became from its earliest years the starting point and center of a great reform of the church which set out to effect a revival of monasticism, which had entered a state of crisis and to promote monastic life in accordance with the rules laid down by St Benedict. The impulse that went out from Cluny led to the reform of existing monastic houses and the foundation of new ones, until there were some 2,000 Cluniac houses all over western Europe.
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Abbey of Cluny
Little remains of the former abbey but tours of the site explain what once stood here.
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