Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye

Relics of Saint Anthony, brought back from the East around 1070, made this Isère village a pilgrimage centre and the mother house of the Antonine order, which nursed victims of Saint Anthony's fire. Its great Gothic abbey church still towers over lanes of half-timbered houses and mullioned windows, in hills rolling towards the Vercors. Viewers of a French television show chose it as their favourite village in 2025.

Highlights

• The Gothic abbey church, built between the 13th and 15th centuries
• The museum in the rebuilt novitiate, telling the story of the Antonine order
• The great organ built in 1620–1625, back in the church since 1982
• Narrow lanes of half-timbered houses with carved façades

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