Sacred places

11 juin 2007

Pilasters of the church of Avenas

The apse in half dome of the church of Avenas is decorated with pilasters. There are 4 of them (ground, matter), separating 3 windows. These pilasters, or posts, look curiously like some pillars of the church of Belleville, (which of egg or hen…) but...

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11 juin 2007

Church Notre-Dame d' Avenas

The village is located on an old Roman way going from Lyon has Autun, not far from the forest close to the collar Barrel in Avenas (760 m). This way is known under the name of Shoed Chemin or Way of the Romans. One knows by the Romans whom the area was...

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11 juin 2007

Ars

The church Saint Sixth of Ars date completion of the XVIth century. It was built, like much, on an old place of worship of which there remain nothing. It was built according to current energy standards' with all the churches, with the presence of two...

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11 juin 2007

Arles, Saint Trophime

In the Vth century, Saint Trophime, first bishop of Arles, transforms into cathedral a primitive basilica, then dedicated to Saint Etienne. The invasions of VII-VIIIth centuries cause the destruction of this building. A rebuilding is undertaken at the...

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11 juin 2007

Islands of Aran, Dun Aengus

According to an old Irish legend, the bay of Galway formerly formed a lake, separate of the Ocean by a ground bar, until the day when, by a storm more violent than the others, the floods very swept: the three islands of Inis Oirr, Inis Meain and Arainn...

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11 juin 2007

Notre-Dame the brown one of Aleyrac

Classified Historic building since 1905, the ruins of the church Notre-Dame the Brown one just below draw up the collar of Aleyrac, between la Bégude-of-Mazenc and Salles-sous-Bois, close to the important medieval way of passage of Crest towards Provence,...

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11 juin 2007

The church Notre-Dame d' Agonges

The church of Agonges was built on a central mound, in the middle of a series of worked hillocks make of hand of man or work observation posts of defense. Depending until the revolution of the diocese of Bourges, possession of the abbess of Saint-Menoux,...

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11 juin 2007

Notre-Dame vault Of the Round of Chazeuil

On a monticule which skirts the Allier and the railroad, at some steps of the castle of Chazeuil, rise the antic chappel of the Round, dating from XIth century. A legend is attached to it: a statue of the virgin appears first of all initially in the church...

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11 juin 2007

Monestir de Poblet, the major cloister and the chapter house

Then comes the major cloister: Its construction begins at the end from the XIII ème century. Its dimensions are rather imposing: 40 X 35 meters. It is divided between novel and Gothic. The galleries are traversed benches of stones on which the monks sat...

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11 juin 2007

Monestir de Poblet, history

Located in a splendid site of the region of Conca de Barberà, Catalonia, inhabited since the prehistoric times, protected by the mountains from Prades, the monastery of Poblet one of most important and best is preserved world cistercian. If you want to...

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