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Extract from the Moissac Travel Guides:
There is nothing very memorable about the modern town of
MOISSAC
, 30km northwest of Montauban, largely because of the terrible damage done by the flood of March 1930, when the Tarn, swollen by a sudden thaw in the Massif Central, burst its banks, destroying 617 houses and killing 120 people.
Luckily, the one thing that makes Moissac a household name in the history of art survived: the cloister and porch of the
abbey church of St-Pierre
, a masterpiece of Romanesque sculpture and the model for hundreds of churches and buildings elsewhere. Indeed, the fact that it has survived countless wars, includ...
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