Abbaye de Fontfroide

Wonderful place in a wonderful area… 🇩🇪❤️🇫🇷

It is privately owned and very well preserved. It has a wine cellar where wine tastings are held and a small shop. It also has a highly recommended restaurant.

Beautiful abbey full of history. Absolutely magnificent stained glass windows including those in the chapel of the dead in the abbey even if some will find it offbeat. Visit made as a family with 3 young adults.....we all appreciated it. Very reasonable price for the site; We had the family pass + 1 child for 50 euros. Very warm welcome. Thank you.

Beautiful place. Worth visiting.

Perfectly preserved Cistercian Abbey. The guided tour is extremely interesting

Beautiful example of a Cistercian abbey, worth visiting

I visited this place in the middle of summer, and it is truly beautiful. Walking through the abbey garden, I felt like I was in a fairytale. Everything was completely enchanted and very well preserved. The only thing I didn't like was that some areas were difficult to access for wheelchair users. I know this is a very old place, but in my opinion, some obstacles (such as stairs replaced by ramps) could have been minimized architecturally.

A magnificent abbey to discover absolutely! 🏰 The welcome is warm and the visit is a real pleasure. The building is superb, full of charm and history, with many corners to explore. The gardens are simply magnificent, perfect for a peaceful stroll. 🌿🌸 Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful abbeys I have had the chance to visit. A real favorite! 💛 Only small downside: the price of €14 for adults and €10 for children may seem a little high.

The Abbey is beautiful. You can visit it at your own pace by following a brochure or by taking a guided tour (although it is only in French and at specific times). It is worth learning about the history of this site, and it is very well preserved. It has free parking. I highly recommend a visit.

Magnificent abbey that we visited on the orchid weekend. Entrance was €9, and we saw some great flower displays within the abbey grounds. The little stroll through the gardens is very pleasant, and gives a beautiful view of the entire building. A very beautiful moment!

Visited a few years ago, memories, memories A very beautiful site in the middle of nature, calm and serenity. The abbey is very well preserved and the gardens are very pretty. We had taken the audio guide which is a plus to learn more about the place and enhance the visit. A very pleasant afternoon spent with the family.

Very nice visit to this superb abbey nestled in a green setting. Place full of history and very well maintained, magnificent gardens. Visit to recommend. As a souvenir some bottles of the wine estate.

Great place to visit. You should consider buying tickets in advance as it gets crowded. The place is quite unusual and is definitely worth visiting.

Highly recommended, visit it with time because it is very large, there is much to see and it is worth spending a while in every corner. The gardens and natural spaces that surround it are spectacular.

Camper info (13/06/24): This Benedictine abbey but originally Cistercian is immersed in lush vegetation of olive trees and vineyards and is surrounded by gardens cultivated with medicinal herbs and rose bushes. The church with barrel vaults is very suggestive and includes a wonderful cloister that encloses a very well-kept garden. Inside there is a shop for the sale of local wines and a souvenir shop. I believe that the entrance fee is decidedly expensive.

Dropped by on the way to Montpellier. It was a rainy day when we arrived, definitely dampened the atmosphere a little bit. Rose garden wasn’t in bloom yet, would assume this place will be beautiful in late spring or summer.

The Abbey is simply captivating, both its well-preserved internal spaces and the gardens that surround it… are a pleasure to look at. The cherry on the cake is, without a doubt, the cloister, whether you see it from the second level or from below. In one of the corners, they have created an access to a small delimited space within the cloister so that you can experience it from the inside and take even better photos 😉. If you have time, it is worth walking around and sitting down to contemplate the gardens and green spaces that surround it. If you go with dogs, they have a specific space where you can leave them while you visit.

Beautiful Abbey, very well kept, unfortunately visiting it in December the gardens were not at their full beauty. The ticket to enter was a bit expensive and I was surprised by the fact that the disabled person with the companion were not free like everywhere else but there was only a very small discount for the disabled person

Worth a visit, the tour was good but not cheap. The wine was a little young for our liking, so we put our bottles down for a future date. Cafe is very efficient, recommend you book if you want a restaurant meal.

Very well preserved place with a lot of history. Worth a visit.

Very beautiful abbey, full of history, however the gardens could be better maintained.

Wonderful, former Romanesque Cistercian abbey, well maintained, restored and carefully renewed (e.g. impressive new church windows) with a barrel-vaulted pseudo-basilica (main nave of the nave without windows), two-story cloister and large monastery garden. Everything fits into the landscape in perfect harmony. A place for relaxation, enjoyment of art and recharging one's batteries.

The pinned location is slightly inaccurate. Once you find it, the abbey is great! Didn't realize how fast the grounds were, therefore we didn't budget enough time. You probably want 3-4 hours if you plan to walk around the whole grounds including the cross on the hilltop. We only had time for the Abbey and a very brief wine tasting. Walking around the Abbey and its adjacent garden was very nice!

We really liked the successful combination of the old abbey and modern elements (windows), etc. We were there outside of peak travel times and were able to enjoy the wonderful atmosphere in the monastery garden. The information in the buildings was very good and conveyed a lot of the rich history. A visit or detour is definitely worth it.

Beautiful way to spend a few hours. It was not busy when we went and it took us 2 hours to stroll through. Parking was ample and though dogs are not allowed in, I found it nice that they had a few kennels you could store your dog in while you visited. There is a restaurant at the entrance and we grabbed a drink to go, they let us bring it inside. As you walk in toward the abbey, there are planters filled with all kinds of herbs. That area smelled so amazing. You show your ticket to the person at the abbey entrance and they scan it. We did not buy ours in advance but you can. There are guided tours but we just wanted to go at our own pace. It's a beautiful building and the gardens are serene. We got lots of great pics. Definitely a good choice for a sidetrip.

Fontfroide Abbey is worth a day trip. The entire abbey grounds are lovingly maintained and kept clean. A small part can be visited free of charge. For the entire abbey, we paid 34.00 euros for the family ticket (2 E and 2 K). Since it hasn't rained much all summer 2022, the garden is of course very dry. There is water except in the rose garden and at the Neptune fountain. Good footwear is necessary to be able to explore everything. We could only take the blue path because we didn't have enough drinks for the green path and were wearing the wrong shoes. Dogs are not allowed on the grounds, but there is accommodation for dogs with a water bowl.

A very beautiful and highly recommended abbey. It's very well preserved. You can visit it in an hour or an hour and a half. It's best to visit with daylight so you can enjoy the stained-glass windows. The gardens are very pretty. The only drawback is, as in most places, the guided tours are only in French :-(

It is a suggestive abbey full of history, whose visit itinerary makes all its aspects. You can't think of spending a short time there, it deserves hours, especially if you walk through the different levels of the gardens, which at each ascent reserve surprises of plants, bees, fountains and landscapes. The paper guide was very useful, because it was detailed in the illustrations. I liked the mystical atmosphere of the church, with the stained glass windows, although modern, dazzling with colors.

highly recommended to visit.

Amazing place! Beautifully restored 11th/12th century French Romanesque architecture

A dream!