20/07/2025
⚜️L’abbaye de Saint-Maurice de Blasimon
📜legend has it that in 980 the abbot of Blasimon gave the Squirs of La Réole (the Squirs were the monastary of La Réole who owned the site of Blasimon in its charters) an allotment of vines 🍇🍷 for the salvation of his soul and the souls of his parents. The abbot was called Maurice. He was made a saint & the Abbey is dedicated to him
🏛️Its church was built somewhere between the XI & XIII centuries. In 1587 the Abbey was besieged by the Huguenots & it’s monks fled to Sauveterre. In 1778 most of the Abbey was dismantled. Only the cloister built in the XII centuries remains
🌳The remnants of these tales etched in stone dot the country side of the Gironde. They are just a tiny part of a very long & layered past
