Labbaye de Hautecombe ( Savoie France)

(EN) Hautecombe Abbey (Latin Altacumba, Altæcumbæum) is a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in SaintPierredeCurtille near AixlesBains in Savoy, France. For centuries it was the burial place of the members of the House of Savoy. It is visited by 150, 000 tourists yearly. The origins of Hautecombe lie in a religious community which was founded about 1101 in a narrow valley (or combe) near Lake Bourget by hermits from Aulps Ab br, br,