Orval

                               name

Orval / Guldendal

                        latin name

Aurea vallis / S. Petri

                       founded in

approx. 1070 OSB

                cistercian since

1132

                    inhabited by

monks

                 primary abbey

Clairvaux

           first mother abbey

Troisfontaines

             daughter abbeys

Düsselthal (1701)

                     dissolved in

1793

                  reinhabited in

1927

                    inhabited by

monks

                      affiliated to

Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae

                   refounded by

Sept-Fons / (La Trappe)

             father immediate

Westmalle (since 1946)

             daugther abbeys

Clairefontaine

                                nuns

Brialmont

                             to visit

                            address

Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval

6823 Villers-devant-Orval

Belgium

                              phone

[+32] (61) 31 10 60

                                  fax

[+32] (61) 31 55 95

                               email

webmaster@orval.be

                            internet

www.orval.be