Rhône-Alpes, France · Europe
Savigny is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Sourcieux-les-Mines, 21km from Musee de l'Automobile Henri Malartre.
Savigny is a town located in Rhône-Alpes, France. With a population of 2,025, it is an important destination in Europe.
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The Abbey of Saint-Martin de Savigny was a Benedictine monastery in the Archdiocese of Lyon. Nothing today survives of its buildings other than some stones in the Musée Lapidaire of Savigny-en-Lyonnais.
It was founded by Leidradus after he resigned as bishop of Lyon in 816. The first mention of the abbey is in aRead more
charter of 817. It also appears in the Notitia de servitio monasteriorum of 819, where it is one of the monasteries owing only prayers (orationes) for the emperor and no other service.
In 976, Conrad the Peaceful, King of Burgundy, confirmed the possessions and privileges of the abbey. In 1139, Bernard of Clairvaux wrote to Falco, archbishop of Lyon, indicating that Savigny was in conflict with the abbey of La Bénisson-Dieu over possessions in the Roannais. Bernard was writing in support of La Bénisson-Dieu because its abbot, Alberic, was one of his disciples.
Savigny was eventually placed in commendam and lost its spiritual significance. In 1779, King Louis XVI ordered the closure of the abbey by letters patent. This was confirmed by Pius VI through a Papal bull on 22 June 1780. In 1784, the buildings were sold. The archives of the abbey are now part of the archives of the department of the Rhône.
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Savigny is located in Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe. The coordinates are 45.8160 latitude, 4.5741 longitude.
Savigny has a population of approximately 2,025 people, making it a town in France.
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museum
Pioneering car museum in a hilltop chateau above the Saone near Lyon, displaying pre-1914 automobiles, historic motorcycles, trams and celebrity cars, including one of Hitler's armoured Mercedes.
21 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Walled medieval weavers' town on a hilltop 35 km from Lyon, its cobbled lanes and stone houses so intact that film crews use it as a ready-made Middle Ages set; try the warm galette pérougienne on the main square.
47 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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