【4K】Exploring an abandoned but not forgotten eerie convent | France

[@sharynhughes1061]

Ammmazzzing. !. History!. 😮

[@cafenoirwalk]

Yep it's an amazing place ! Really peaceful.

[@darcyschneider8525]

Like many who have commented here, I absolutely love how you filmed it without music or talking! It makes the experience of watching so much more magical! Thank you. I'm subscribing

[@cafenoirwalk]

Thank you :)

[@lynnralph8373]

How beautiful. Sad to see that there has been no effort to restore it. In another ten or fifteen years much of it will be lost to the weather.

[@susanernst9041]

This place is absolutely fabulously beautiful!Something right from a fairytale❤️

[@lindaknight3771]

Beautiful and haunting….love the quiet with no talking, fits this

[@cafenoirwalk]

It was so peaceful and mysterious. One of my favourite places for sure.

[@darcyschneider8525]

Yes! No commentary or music to detract from the feeling of being there.

[@waynebender8835]

It wondrous and peaceful. It's a shame how something that was important and now a forgotten memory.

[@brendaprovence1750]

It’s quite beautiful Putte. Needs to be used for a place of solitude and relaxation for people it’s just too beautiful to waste

[@cafenoirwalk]

When I was here I was really relaxed. So I agree with your comment.

[@Claudia-lp3yx]

Tiefe Dankbarkeit für den Menschen, der Dies erstellt hat! Respekt und Hut ab🙏 Wortlos, kommentarlos reine pure Schönheit, Anmut und Ästhetik... Die nur in Stille pur wirklich wirkt. Nochmal, Respekt! Und danke 🙏

[@nothingelsetolose7661]

Love it when we get the history of the people who brought the architectural magnificence into existence

[@cafenoirwalk]

It's always a good thing to try to understand the history of a place. 🙂

[@rosaliamariz3207]

Thank you so much for doing this tour in silence

[@cafenoirwalk]

Exploring something in silence is one of my favorite thing.

[@puckgroeneweg115]

It is a shame that is left behind, forgotten, the courtyard is so beautiful, all those pillars, carving’s.. would be a great garden surrounded by apartments, and inside wow, sad it is keft behind…such a treasure

[@cafenoirwalk]

Sometimes I imagine writing some book or doing some art on a small desk in the middle of the orangery, under the glass roof. What a place !

[@giselle3403]

0:23 what a grace of bridge ❤️

[@cafenoirwalk]

indeed !

[@farnabyurquhart6970]

I’d buy it in a heartbeat, it’s beautiful 🥰

[@cafenoirwalk]

I agree !

[@giuliabaracchi463]

Absolutely love this video!! 👍🏻💕

[@cafenoirwalk]

Thx for your comment :)

[@jeffcicotte109]

At 10:15 I see what clearly looks to be a tomb slab of some sort. What a great place you found!

[@Ocelot1962]

If it is a tomb slab, does that mean someone is laid to rest there, forgotten, without even his or her name?

[@museluvr]

Wow, good eye. How sad to be left behind, even in death.

[@Carolepacot]

Je viens de découvrir votre vidéo, c'est magnifique,on dirait un couvent égyptien ? Une merveille de trésor. J'espère qu'il sera restauré avant qu'il ne reste plus rien. Merci pour cette belle découverte 🙏💙

[@cafenoirwalk]

Il y a bien des éléments de style égyptien et romain à l'intérieur. Ca donne une atmosphère d'autant plus incroyable.

[@maximejette7674]

la lumiere du soleil semble rendre ce lieu magique et pur comme ce devait etre magnifique dans lancien temps

[@cafenoirwalk]

Oui c'était une exploration très apaisante et reposante. Ca n'arrive pas tous les jours dans l'urbex.

[@mglennmyers]

amazing

[@juh4056]

Caramba que lugar magnífico!!! Excelente trabalho 👏👏👏 Vim pelo canal do Beto Locão que faz um trabalho parecido com o seu, mas no Brasil!!! Amei o vídeo 😍 já deixando o meu like 👏👏👏😘

[@cafenoirwalk]

This channel seems so nice. I subscribed. Thanks for your comment 🙂

[@heru-deshet359]

This marvel has to be saved!

[@darman17]

Video yang begini yang Kusuka kalau siang tenang,,senyap penuh misteri,,kalau malam pasti seram sekali👻👍

[@edithflood631]

I was going to say I have never seen such iconography in a Roman Catholic convent. Private estate, subsidence of the soil, all makes more sense to me. It has elements or sections that are quite beautiful. Because of either the age, fragility or unstable ground, or all three, it would require millions to restore, and the question is, is it worth it? I think that some of it may be, not all of it.

[@kindlydude]

It should be restored ....period. Get French art students to do it for credit for their diplomas.

[@yamunarohrich3753]

thank you very much for sharing this beautiful place. would you tell the secrete where it is please ? and is it for sale ?

[@cafenoirwalk]

I can only say it's in Aude department and unfortunately it's not for sale. I would like to share more because it's a beautiful place but I can't. I need to preserve this building to avoid damages.

[@amerose3885]

@@cafenoirwalk Comme vous avez raison, certains en profiteraient pour le profaner davantage. Gardez le secret, c'est important.

[@cue3241]

Wow! I'd like to live there! The Egyptian reliefs, actually from Egypt? Looks authentic.

[@cafenoirwalk]

I don't know !

[@kindlydude]

Some are Catholic, but most are Roman I think. If they are reproductions then no great loss (even 18th or 19th-century reproductions) ...but if they are originals then it is criminal to leave them to be plundered &/or vandalized. The chapel is an exquisite gym as are all the pillars around the courtyard. The French government should encourage out-of-work artists & artisans to restore it for food & lodging and at least a stipend. It's too beautiful to let go!!

[@kindlydude]

p.s. "Cave Canem" is Latin for ..."Beware of the Dog". Therefore, I am tempted to believe that this round mosaic of a dog is an actual ancient Roman relic. Perhaps this whole courtyard and chapel was an 'idyl' on a larger older estate whose wealthy owners recreated a kind of hodge-podge of ancient relics? Perhaps the stained glass windows are original to some other more ancient chapel that was being dismantled or was in a state of disrepair that the owners then saved & collected and then re-created into a new chapel? The whole thing seems like someone's vision for an idyllic retreat for reflection and meditation, with elements of different periods of European civilization represented. @@cafenoirwalk

[@ginnyeaster1148]

where is this place?? it is absolutely beautiful

[@cafenoirwalk]

You can find this place in Occitanie in France.

[@amerose3885]

Non cet endroit doit rester caché sinon certains en profiteront pour le détériorer davantage. Profitez de la vidéo et ne cherchez pas svp.

[@elisabethnouveau1580]

Ca semble difficile d acces c'est peut-être la cause de l abandon, mais très beau lieu.

[@cafenoirwalk]

Parfois dans l'urbex certains lieux devraient rester inaccessibles ou presque. Les dégradations sont une plaies.

[@DhanishtaDevi]

Are you sure its built in the 19th century? The walls, pillars and art style looks ancient Roman.

[@cafenoirwalk]

I'm sure. This was a style in vogue in the 19th century and the building is not that old. The true ruins of the Roman Empire in my region are a quiet different.

[@JeanetteParmantie-jq5xy]

It's a shame the convent would be a nice homeless apartments.

[@ilcasuelyilca6520]

Onde está o órgão de tombamento patrimonial da França ? Absurdo .

[@museluvr]

So, what was eerie about this convent? The chapel is gorgeous. When a church, convent, monastery are abandoned, do they 'de-commission them', or does it stay holy to God despite the evil of this world walking in? Is the saint relic in each removed or does it remain?

[@cafenoirwalk]

I would like to answer you but I'm not really an expert in religious things.

[@susanernst9041]

Was this possibly a monnestary or nunnery?

[@cafenoirwalk]

It was a monastery.

[@jolenemonaghan2021]

Stunning just wondering was that a sort of bathing area by the columns ?

[@cafenoirwalk]

I don't have any informations about it, but I think it's only a big fountain with roman decoration. This was really in vogue in the middle of 19th.

[@colleb95]

Just looks like a pool to me.

[@mathiassca]

Though it has a tiny private chaple and cloister, It is clearly not a convent. Looks like an Estates abondoned Folly of the late 19th century, The wierd mixure of gothic and Pompaiin arcitecture would not usually be done in a convent, convent orders were often large, so chaple is more family sized, Also Nun's usually have bed cubicles. This structure has, a garden cloister, tiny chaple, a outer room latter used for table tenis. A internal roman covered court yard which most likely had tropical plants like an Orangery, off of that might have been a summer dinning room. The outer building that you earlier went into with the cave like walls was a Grotto, with ruined architecture elements like in follies. Above is I believe a duel perpose building of a garden Teahouse in the Gothic Style, with a floor systern that most likely was used to store water for the grotto bellow and posibly playful fountains that were meant to amuse in the summer heat in a garden folly!!! I'm guessing either on a part of an old estate that this area isn't used because of sbsidance damage, clearly the cloister was worth resupporting, to keep from calasps!!

[@cafenoirwalk]

Very useful comment ! Thx for your expertise, I think you are totally right.

[@ТаняГущина-я2п]

Какая красота,но почему заброшно все?

[@cafenoirwalk]

I don't know.

[@coyotedust]

What's the name of this convent?

[@cafenoirwalk]

Sorry I can't say the name to preserve the spot.

[@amerose3885]

c'est incroyable, on vous a dit que ce lieu devait rester caché. N'insistez pas.....

[@lucianasalles7272]

Ricardo vá lá ver onde é e se instale, nós vamos pra lá ✒😊

[@christiandaubeze9711]

Magnifique endroit en effet visité Fait plusieurs fois car proche de chez nous … la dernière tentative au mois de septembre a été un échec on c’est fait dégagé par des employés du propriétaire, malheureusement endroit voué à la destruction car c’est une plaît pour le propriétaire impossible à entretenir et dangereux et visité presque tout les jours … c’est une réplique d’un ancien cloître ayant servi de décor de théâtre !

[@bikerkat01]

Is it for sale? I could be so beautiful again.

[@cafenoirwalk]

No it's not. But I think your wish of beauty could be granted in a near future.

[@ceasarandrepont1243]

This is when people believe in something more than themselves, and people back then had something, people today do not have which is faith. The Church could have used this place other than a nunnery or still kept the place as a religious community and not secular. The building could have been used for only a women's retreat center.

[@kindlydude]

Some of the reliefs may be Catholic I believe, but most are Roman I think. If they are reproductions then no great loss (even 18th or 19th-century reproductions) ...but if they are originals then it is criminal to leave them to be plundered &/or vandalized. The chapel is an exquisite gym as are all the pillars around the courtyard. The French government should encourage out-of-work artists & artisans to restore it for food & lodging and at least a stipend. It's too beautiful to let go!! "Cave Canem" is Latin for ..."Beware of the Dog". Therefore, I am tempted to believe that this square mosaic of a dog is an actual ancient Roman relic. Perhaps this whole courtyard and chapel was an 'idyl' on a larger older estate whose wealthy owners recreated a kind of hodge-podge of ancient relics? Perhaps the stained glass windows are original to some other more ancient chapel that was being dismantled or was in a state of disrepair that the owners then saved & collected and then re-created into a new chapel? The whole thing seems like someone's vision for an idyllic retreat for reflection and meditation, with elements of different periods of European civilization represented.

[@cafenoirwalk]

I think you are right. Some of the stained glass, stones, mosaics and other things come from an ancient chapel. It's a mix of new and old. It's interesting.

[@lindafitzgerald9567]

Why aren't you saying anything about the place?

[@cafenoirwalk]

In the video ? Because I'm doing a no commentary video like all of my stuff on my channel. I know it can be a bit frustrating when the place seems super cool.

[@amerose3885]

@@cafenoirwalk il y a des commentaires totalement nuls et inappropriés.....

[@16chimneys]

t There is people with you when Filming this Most Definitely,can you not Sense it !!!

[@cafenoirwalk]

I was clearly alone but yeah you can sense something when you are inside the building.

[@16chimneys]

@@cafenoirwalk SEVERAL

[@16chimneys]

Several times your filming in small areas the focus was like a blurred out part ,for no apparent reason and it was not you...a strong sense of other beings with you at the time,explain that i can not!!!

[@101life9]

.......otherwise a beautiful place.

[@prokkle4765]

I don't believe this is a religious structure. Perhaps there was a monastery or convent on the site once long ago, but this looks like someone's private fantasy building. A Christian religious house would not have pagan Roman and Egyptian decorations, and would be far more practical in structure and materials. It looks like a nineteen-thirties film set, or a 60s hippy fantasy place where an eccentric person could put his collection of classical souvenirs and have parties.

[@cafenoirwalk]

I think you are partly right. But the building is clearly not from 20th century. Some part are even much older.

[@stewartbrands]

That is what happens when irrational people with a half baked fetish for the past do when they have too much money and willing workers.Everything hardly worth a glance. Any more would be repulsive.Even if it were new.

[@laurablair1424]

Why are you watching this

[@stewartbrands]

@@laurablair1424 I didn't. Just a bit of here and there indicates the reason for the observations if you know anything about architecture its history , the methods and materials of work done.

[@Starli7777]

Its shame how much money Catholic church wasted so much money on old abandon covenant and churches everywhere

[@cafenoirwalk]

In France we have so much abandoned church or catholic building ! In some case we demolish it because is too expensive to renovate.

[@johnkelly516]

One has to wonder why a once thriving precinct at some stage became deserted as the cost to establish would be significant.Women not railroaded into the sisterhood.for religion transgressions may be part of it.Obviously Roman Catholic>…..

[@EmilyW.isawakenotwoke]

Great video! Thank you. It was actually really nice to have no commentary or music.. allowed space for my mind to get truly emersed 🙏❤️🤍🕊️🌷🌼🌸

[@cafenoirwalk]

Many thanks ! :)

[@EmilyW.isawakenotwoke]

@@cafenoirwalk 🥰❤️

[@rawia5059]

How much do you care about the beauty of its original inhabitants wow 🌹🤍🕊️