Fontevraud Abbey, SYMBOL OF POWER Founded in 1101 by Robert Abrissel the hermit, the Abbey of Fontevraud developed during the French Revolution in one of the largest monastic city in Europe. Supported by the popes, bishops and the counts of Anjou, stands as the symbol of the power of its necropolis Plantegenêt housing here. Here in the abbey church, chose to be buried Plantagenet kings (Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ricado Lionheart and Isabella of Angoulême). Their coffins are coming and going of tourists with their cameras trying to capture the challenges of such illustrious characters. In Napoleon's time the abbey was transformed into prison and remained that way until 1963. Today is converted into a cultural center, the visitors who come to admire the Romanesque abbey church of the twelfth century, the cloister of Le Grand-Mostoier, the chapter house, refectory and the extraordinary Roman cuisine.