From Crusaders entering Jerusalem to Chagall stained glass and from the washing of feet to the Wedding at Cana in Galilee we had seen the lot today. Gabby was still parked on the town aire and we had been inside the abbey church . Now it was time to see what was described as the most complete and perfect cloister in France if not the whole of the world . The cloisters or so we had read were particularly early , particularly beautiful and comprised of arcades of single and double columns with decorated capitals . Of the 76 columns half were Biblical stories or episodes in the lives of the saints . The remaining columns featured anything and everything about creation . Described as decoratives the columns completed in 1100 comprised of flowers , leaves
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