Bénévent-l’Abbaye (; oc, Benavent) is a commune in the Creuse
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
An area of farming, forestry and associated light industry comprising the village and several hamlets, situated some west of Guéret, at the junction of the D912a1, D10, D62 and the D914 roads. The town is on the
Way of St. James
The Camino de Santiago ( la, Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; gl, O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of St James, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the Twelve Apostle ...
pilgrimage route.
Population
Sights
* The abbey church of St. Barthélémy, dating from the twelfth century.