In the Val-d’Oise, a beautiful escape to Royaumont

At Royaumont Abbey, in Asnières-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise), Sunday is a day like any other. We give voice and the music is listened to. At the gates of Paris, but far enough for a Parisian eager for calm and beauty, the place is there with a program of Sunday concerts. During the week, the musicians, singers and dancers work and rehearse in the spaces set up in the impressive large attic. The Royaumont Foundation, created in 1964, offers them the sumptuous setting of the former abbey for residences. Happy the artist in creation under these auspices. Everyone likes to go back there at the very end of summer when the festival takes place. Royaumont then finds an unprecedented cultural effervescence and much less muted than the rest of the year.

Summer turns out to be a favorable season for discovering this Cistercian jewel with a history as thick as the walls surrounding the monks’ former refectory. Before artists invest it in the XX