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Abbey of the Holy Cross
Located adjacent to the building of the Gendarmerie of the city, this cross is something you won't even notice if you aren't paying attention. It was founded by the Earl of Cornwall ALAIN CANHIART in the eleventh century following the miraculous recovery from a disease he had. It finds itself coupled with the Abbey church Lanieff which is the only inspired circular floor apart from the one in Jerusalem at the Holy Sepulchre. Besides being circular, the plant features a clover whose stem forms the bottom of the crypt and the altar and the apse at the top, and the leaves are the chapels around it.
When the bell tower collapsed in 1862, a lot of it had to rebuilt but the crypt and the apse remain in the original Romanesque style. In the crypt you can see two recumbent figures of the fifteenth century, one of them corresponds to the first abbot of the church SAN Gurloes, and here people typically called to migraines. The choir monks are worth checking out, as they are one of the most important examples of Romanesque art, like the magnificent tower exempt. The faculty can not be visited to be used by the building of the gendarmerie.
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