Monastère royal de Brou

The church Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou, the Royal Monastery of Brou.

The church was built between 1506 and 1532.

The Royal Monastery of Brou is  located at Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain departemennt in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

 

From Paris Gare de Lyon is 1h50 by train.

 

From the trainstation bus 2 stop’ Valery’  or 6 bus stop ‘Monastery’.

Stop ‘ Valery’

 

The first cloister, des Hôtes.

Second cloister, the Ambulation.

Third cloister, the menagerie

Gallery des pains. 

Entrance of the church, the portail of  Sainte Monique.

 

Inside  are the mausoleums of Margaret of Austria, her husband Philibert II and his mother, Margaret of Bourbon. 

Sarcophagus. 

The choir

The tomb of Philibert II. 

On the windows : The incredulity of Saint Thomas 

Nave and Jubé of the church of Brou.

The tomb of Margaret of Bourbon.

The tomb of Margaret of Austria.

Tomb of Marguerite of Austria. 

The tomb of Philibert II. 

Passage on the jube of the church.

Chapel of Marguerite.

 

Altarpiece of the “Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary. 

The nave. 

Since 1922 there is a museum.

 

It presents religious statues of the 13th to 17th centuries on the ground floor, and a collection of paintings of the 16th to the 20th centuries on the upper floor.

Reconstruction of a monk’s cell in the old monastery dormitory.

The appartements. 

 

Some 18th-century objects: furniture and objets d’art, still lifes, portraits, genre scenes and landscapes. 

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