Metalwork grill with ivy leaves on the gate separating the Central courtyard, known as the Cour de Travail or Cour Louis XIV, from the Salle des Convers or lay brothers' refectory, at Fontfroide Abbey or l'Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide, at Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Occitanie, France. Founded by the Viscount of Narbonne in 1093, Fontfroide linked to the Cistercian order in 1145. Today the abbey estate produces AOC Corbieres wine. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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