Floraison Majeure

Montmajour Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery located in the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône, just a few kilometers northeast of Arles. The abbey was established on a rocky hill surrounded by marshland, which was designated as a public cemetery by King Conrad III of Burgundy (937–993). The site was sold to a noblewoman by the chapter of the Church of St. Trophime in Arles in 949, who then funded the construction of the Hermitage of Saint-Pierre, a pre-Romanesque chapel partially carved into the rock.