Eglise Sainte-Croix, Bordeaux
Romanesque abbey church on the Rue Jacques Ellul
The existing Roman Catholic church was built in the late 11th and early 12th century in a Romanesque style. However, it is thought that the original Benedictine church was built at the request of Clovis, the Merovingian King in the 5th century.
The original abbey was destroyed by the Arabs around the year 730 and by the Norman raids in the middle of the 9th century. Its reconstruction was promoted by Guillaume le Bon, count of Bordeaux, in 970, while the current church was built in the 11th and 12th centuries.
The church was restored in the 19th century and later the annex and former Benedictine abbey became the home for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, and remains so today.
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Open every day from 10:00 to 18:00.
