Sacred places

29 juillet 2007

Sacra di San Michele, history

The Pirchiriano mount, on the slope of which is Sacra it di san Michele, dominates with 962m, and is drawn up in the valley of Suse, not far from Turin. The valley was formed in the time of the ice ages and was planed by the power of the ices, as the...

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29 juillet 2007

Foundations and the first constructions of the abbey

Between 983 and 987, shortly after the expulsion of Buckwheats, two oratories were rebuilt, according to a clunisian chronicler. It is at the end of Xth century that the third vault was built, vaster than the two others, by the hermit Jean Vincent. It...

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29 juillet 2007

The arrival to the Sacra di San Michele

This “wonder” is seen by far, and there is this furtive impression which one will touch it soon. Furtive certainly, because it is necessary, as with the Michaelmas Mount (the danger of the sea), to make a good walk before finding the entry. As usual in...

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29 juillet 2007

Meeting the sanctuary

The sepulchre of the monks The first meeting, and not of least, is done with the ruins of a small Romane church of centered plan, whose the absidioles are still visible. Its construction goes back to the years 1000. The remainders as well as the heap...

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29 juillet 2007

The entry of the sanctuary

The frontage This is the most imposing and most monumental part of the Abbey. The frontage, massive, is 41 meters height. The base is 26 meters height and supports the structure of the church. On September 24, 2005, the statue of Saint Michael Archange...

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29 juillet 2007

The large staircase

Inside the base, an immense staircase, called staircase of deaths. Uneven 20 meters separates the departure from the staircase of the level of the church and its pavement, which makes it particularly stiff. Where the first steps are assembled, on the...

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29 juillet 2007

The door of the zodiac

The staircase of dead opens with the light. It is necessary to pass in front of the door of the zodiac. Perhaps the amounts of marble which decorate it come from Saint-Etienne, the vault, known as the sepulchre of the monks. It seems that they are not...

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29 juillet 2007

The church

After having passed the door of the zodiac, we arrive in the last staircases leading to the porch of the church. The buttresses are from XIXth century, but there remain some original steps which turned behind the apses when the staircase of dead did not...

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29 juillet 2007

Towards the monastery

Ruins From the terrace of the church, the imposing ruins of the large monastery built between XIIth and XIVth century are offered to the sight. It is here, which during centuries, the old fortress of the Ligurians drew up, then the Roman castrum. It is...

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