ROMANESQUE DAYS: "CISTERCIAN ABBEYS AND REFORMED ORDERS IN THE ROMANESQUE PERIOD".

For six days in July, usually during the second week of the month, the Journées Romanes bring together an enthusiastic public and top-notch speakers. The programme alternates between days of lectures given by academics and researchers at Saint-Michel de Cuxa Abbey, and visits to the main Romanesque monuments in Roussillon and the neighbouring regions of Catalonia and Languedoc.
On the programme for the first day:
-1pm Welcome to participants
-3pm Opening lecture by Alexis Grélois from the University of Rouen: "Architectural and artistic unity in the New Orders: deconstructing and resisting a received idea.
-4.30pm tour of the abbey by Quitterie Cazes, Emmanuel Garland and Olivier Poisson
-6pm friendly aperitif in the cloister