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Mazan l'Abbaye is a pretty little village in the Ardèche Mountains well known for its abbey and its huge national forest.
Description
What is most characteristic of MAZAN is its huge national forest full of huge conifers. There are also many other species in MAZAN such as beech, maple, mountain ash...
There are also mouillères (wet sites) in the forest. The flora is rich and varied (digital, columbine, willowherb, arnica, heather, etc.)
Many sites are to be seen such as the narces of the Mas de Jean rich in sphagnum or the Malachamp waterfall. As the town is located in the foothills of the Ardéchoise Mountain, there are many magnificent viewpoints and panoramas (Chaumienne, the planted stone greenhouse, etc.).
In this preserved environment, you can meet many birds of prey (Saint Martin's harrier, common buzzard, sparrowhawk, falcon...), but also all kinds of wild animals (squirrel, marten, weasel, badger, fox, roe deer, genet, hare... ) randomly during a walk in the forest or a night car journey. To preserve all this, the town adheres to the Natura 2000 protection plan.
Etymology: comes from Mas d'Adam, name of the old estate which was located on the site of the current village which was ceded by the lord of Géorant to the bishop of Viviers to allow him to found the abbey of Mazan.
It all started with the foundation of the Cistercian abbey in the heart of the village. This took place between 1119 and 1122. At the beginning of the XNUMXth century, canons came to settle in the place of Mas d'Adam (toponym which was to evolve towards MAZAN), and were joined by monks from Bonnevaux Abbey. These monks built a huge abbey, of which only the vestiges remain today, which experienced a peak period that lasted until the Hundred Years War. It gives birth to four other abbeys which are Bonneval, Sénanque, Sylvanès and Le Thoronet as well as establishments of nuns.
After this prosperous period, misfortunes follow one another at the abbey of Mazan: it is looted by the great companies of the Hundred Years War, then attacked by the Huguenots in the modern period. Before this last looting, the monks would have, according to legend, melted with all their treasures a golden bell, which they would have buried somewhere, opposite and in front of the bull's eye, within reach of the rooster's crow .
Following the French Revolution, the abbey was deserted, the abbey church was kept for the worship of the village which gradually formed around the abbey. During the XNUMXth century, the priest in charge of the parish of MAZAN constantly complaining about the great cold which reigned in this immense church, the bishop started the construction work of the new church and the destruction of a part of the abbey, in order to recover the stones. From then on, this magnificent Romanesque building continued to be looted.
In 1901, the original commune of MAZAN ET MEZEYRAC, which was one of the largest in France, was split into two communes, ISSANLAS and MAZAN L'ABBAYE.
What to see and visit: ruins of the Cistercian abbey founded in 1119 by the monk Amédée d'Hauterives.
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