La Chartreuse Saint-Sauveur en visite guidée groupes
Follow our cultural guides in the Saint-Sauveur charterhouse, Flamboyant Gothic masterpiece of the XVth century. Discover this exceptional building and immerse yourself in its so special atmosphere !
Built on the edge of the town between 1451 and 1459 thanks to the legacy of a rich cloth merchant from Villefranche, Vezian Valette, the monastery of Chartreuse St Sauveur is a 15th century flamboyant Gothic masterpiece. This ensemble enables one to understand how the monks lived at the heart of a charter house and to admire the precious heritage: the small cloister, the chapel and its magnificent decorated stalls, the refectory, the great cloister against which years ago the hermitages and were built that encircle the cemetery and the secrets of the community...
