The Palais Benedictine is above all an incredible Renaissance building, very popular at the end of the 19th century.
Alexandre le Grand, founder of the Benedictine distillery, invented the eponymous liqueur after an old recipe of Benedictine monks. He entrusted the building of his palace to Camille Albert, a young and fiery architect who gave free rein to his imagination…
Alexandre also has a skill for communication and marketing, which was rare at the time, and did not hesitate to hire the greatest artists of the time, including the famous artist Mucha, to design images that could capture people's attention and enhance his liqueur.
As an impassioned collector, he gathered chests, locks, paintings, manuscripts, sculptures from the Middle-Ages that enrich this astonishing place… The Palace became a very popular museum in which a modern art gallery was opened…