Charlemagne is credited with the founding of 20 abbeys in France, and the one at Conques was his favorite. Situated in the Midi Pyrenees region of France, the abbey church of St. Foy in the center ...

Begun around 1040, the Church of Sainte-Foy at Conques in southern France is one of the earliest surviving examples of the Romanesque style that would spread across Western Europe.