The abbey is famous for its organ which was renovated in 1981 by German organ builder Grenzing. Rocamadour | Things to see and do in Rocamadourīuilt mainly in the Romanesque style flanked by a fortified bell tower dating from the 12th century. Turenne | Things to see and do in Turenne La Roque Gageac | Things to see and do in La Roque Gageac Les Eyzies | Things to see and do in Les Eyzies Montignac | Things to see and do in Montignac Now St Cyprien is a lovely village to visit with a selection of good restaurants and a lively market held each Sunday morning through the summer months. In 1871 the powerful state tobacco monopoly knocked down the cloister, closed off the inner doors, and turned the place into a warehouse. Declared a “national asset”, in April 1791 it was sold to the town for 8,125 francs and renamed “Temple of Reason dedicated to the Supreme Being”. In 1568, during the Wars of Religion, Calvinist troops burned the priory to the ground, but the monastery was rebuilt in 1685. St Cyprien suffered greatly in the Hundred Years’ War, due to its exposed border position and much of the village was destroyed. The body became an Augustine body and by the year 1076 was so successful it was taken under the protection of Bertrand de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux and later Pope Clement V. Barbarian invasions in the mid-9th century forced the monks to build defensive ramparts, one of which is the belltower-keep that survives today. Others gathered around him and a monastic community grew up. In about 620 AD, a hermit named Cyprien settled in a cave that overlooked the Dordogne valley. The village has narrow streets winding up to the 12th-century bell tower/ keep, part of the abbey church with its listed organ.
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St Cyprien is a pretty village full of history in the Dordogne in SW France not far from Sarlat and near the great chateaux of Beynac and Castelnuad.
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