The Cloister at the Abbey 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.

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