The Cloister at the Abbey Fontfroide

marble columns in the cloister at Fontfroide

Marble columns with ornate carving in the cloister at the Abbey of Fontfroide. Each pillar is made of a different kind of marble, and each has a different decorative capital. The Abbey was an immensely wealthy center of orthodoxy that played a central role in the Albigensian Crusade.