Benedictine abbey located in the heart of the Aude, in the region Occitania, the fortified abbey of Saint-Hilaire was founded in the via century, while its church dates from the twelfth century. Classified with historical monuments, it still presents many buildings to discover the time of a visit to the scene.
It is possible to discover the cloister of the fourteenth century with its sandstone columns, the abbatial logis with its ceiling painted on the fifteenth and its walls painted nineteenth, the refectory with a flesh of the fourteenth century or the abbey church.. The latter, also classified with historical monuments, presents very beautiful stained glass windows of the nineteenth century and a nave consisting of three vaulted junches of ogives of the 13th. The church contains the sarcophagus of Saint Cernin carved with a single white marble block of the Pyrenees. The sculptures retrace the life of the first bishop of Toulouse with four main scenes representing his evangelization missions, his martyrdom or his tomb.
In the course of the fourteenth century, the abbey of Saint-Hilaire has been fortified because of ambient insecurity, we can still see some remains. In addition, it is possible to discover the sandstone prison dating from the same time.
