From Thursday to Monday
Hours: 13h30 to 19h30
Guided tour possible by appointment.
Admission: €5 per adult/€3 per child.
The Bussière site was occupied from 1188 by a community of Cistercian nuns.
For more than 4 centuries, this abbey lived with difficulty in a country with scarce resources and ungrateful soil. It rarely exceeded a dozen women from the local nobility.
In 1625, Cistercian nuns left their abbey to settle in Bourges where they remained until 1792.
The initial buildings then became a priory which remained attached to the mother abbey. The exploitation of the land and the woods around the priory ensured a regular income for the nuns who had become city dwellers.
During the French Revolution, buildings in poor condition became private property. They were sold in 1821 to the current family, which has occupied them for six generations.
In the 19th century, favored by a very massive take-off of agriculture, considerable restoration and development work was carried out.
Today, the Bussière estate is an example of a Cistercian abbey deserted in the 17th century, enlarged in the 18th and 19th centuries, to make it a pleasant country residence. It has been listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments since 2020.