Besides the main building which houses the chambres d’hôtes, there is the chapel, the ruins of a lay brother hostelry, the remains of the 45m long church and of course there are the holiday cottages (gîtes).

In the immediate vicinity you can find some buildings (farms and water mills) that are still in operation and originally belonged to the 600 hectares large domain of the abbey. Here you can sometimes still find building remains of the church and abbey.

The only part of the 45m long church that is still standing is the head façade. Traces of the foundation have already been discovered and the plan is to excavate them. We might just find remnants of the abbey itself then.

After the French Revolution the order was abolished and l’Abbaye du Palais became the private property of the Aubusson family. They had the chapel built in honor of Marcus. In this way they wanted to show their gratitude for the proceeds from the goldmines.

Even though it is now a ruin the villagers still refer to the chapel as ’the Château’. It was first used in 1574 and speculations are that this building was originally used to house the lay brothers and to offer shelter to the many guests that spent the night while on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella, as one of the official routes to Santiago ran right past the abbey.

Only recently (in the early sixties) the building has fallen into disrepair. The story is that low flying French mirages broke through the sound barrier. The roof is said to have been seriously damaged by the resulting blast. Rain, wind, frost and sun have done the rest and forty years later the building has almost been leveled.