OLD ABBEY

For more than a thousand years, nuns and then monks beat the heart of Faverney. It was in the th century that the abbey was founded by a local lord who offered it to his younger sister. In the XII, the Benedictine monks replace nuns. They no longer depend on the archdiocese of Besançon but on the abbey of the Chair-Dieu (Auvergne). In the Revolution, monks are hunted, the abbey is nationalized and transformed into prison. In the th and early th centuries, the abbey welcomed a skill school, and also made a liqueur, Sancta. From 1911 to 1967, the place becomes religious, since the ancient walls of the abbey host one of the small seminars of the Diocese of Besançon. The former abbey is now private property.