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        <title><![CDATA[Sacred places]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Menhirs and dolmens, roman and gothic churches , cathedrals, cloisters, black virgins and guards, springs,striking trees, crowned fountains and temples. All energy top-places.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[procedure…]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:21:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Hello, You are more than 25.000 to have visited me since the creation of the french blog, and I would like to thank you. (and more than 100.000 pages seen) Sincerely yours… (If you want the french version : http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/ ) NEW… A forum... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, historical]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:20:41 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The shrine is placed under the term Sernin, or Saturnin, and was built on the site of his tomb. At the outset, this was an oratory built under the leadership of the first bishop of Toulouse, Hilaire, who draw up an oratory to honour the memory of his... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The dolmen of Pierre Luteau in Ruan (Loiret)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:10:12 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ruan, whose name means “Street” in Old Latin, was called “Ruata” into 870. It was discovered there an old Gallo-Roman villa. This village has a church of XIIth century, Saint-Felix. A dolmen was found, Pierre Luteau, nested in the middle of the fields,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Godon stone, in Tillay-le-Peneux (Eure et Loir)]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Tillay-le-Peneux is a small town in the conty of Orgères-in-Beauce. Mentioned under the name of Tilietum-Pagani, Tilletum in 1198, Teillay-le-Pesneux in 1629. The name comes from the lime-trees present on the territory since a long time.Close to the locality... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The church  St. Lawrence d' Outarville]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Outarville is a city of 750 inhabitants. Located in Beauce at 20 km in the West of Pithiviers, it is bordering the Eure et Loir. The St. Lawrence church was remade in XVIIth and was restored at the XIXth century. Registered with the additional inventory... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ The &quot;Pierre-clouée&quot; of Andonville]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:31:54 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Andonville is a french little town located in the department of Loiret (45). Its church, built in XIVth century, under the term of Saint-Pierre and Saint-Wolf, was in the beginning a castral vault. It was included in the strengthened enclosure. A kind... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The church of Salt-in-Donzy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In between Forez, Lyonnais and Roannais, the Morning Mountains are nested in a framework of small valleys and hills, nearby of the Lyonnais Mounts and the river Loire Salt-in-Donzy, nested in these mountains, has an antic and rich past. Men left there... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The abbey of Noirlac, history]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:38:33 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Before the appearance of the cistercians, quite even the arrival of the Romans, the area saw the man of Heidelberg (related with the family of the homo erectus). The many prospections in the river Cher gave place to discovered very old industries, of... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The abbey church]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[After having crossed the arcade, remains long arched passage which formed the entry of the fence, we are in front of the abbey church. The gate of entry, on the Western frontage, was in XIIIth century preceded by a porch of 4 arched spans. The church... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The cloister]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The cloister serves by its galleries all the essential parts of the abbey: the chapter house, the sacristy, the room of the monks, the refectory. Its galleries open on a garden whose well is eccentric. One can imagine that a first cloister, square, existed... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The chapter house]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It is the neatest part and most remarkable. It dates from XIIIth century. It is the place where the community meet, where the abbot exerted his magistery and where he pointed out the chapters of the rule. Moreover, the brothers convers were entitled to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The room of the monks]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:34:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The room of the monks date from the XIIth century. This part is decorated of a chimney, perhaps added on a later date. The large windows date from the XVIIIth century. This room, very altered, preserved its groined vault. On the chimney, two leaned sticks... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The refectory]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Located in the southern wing, it forms the principal axis of it. Transformed in the XVIIIth century by a middle height floor, in order to build the apartment of the hosts, this room found its primitive volume today: 24 m length, 11 of width, 9 height.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dormitories]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The first is in the wing of the monks, on the first floor. It was enlightened in the east as in the west by the small windows of which only those of the Western face remain. Community until the XVIIth century, it was arranged at that time in individual... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The storeroom]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The walls of the storeroom are certainly former to the wall of the frontage of the church which comes to be stuck to it, and date from the work campaign carried out of 1170 to 1190. The vaults probably date from first half of XIIIth century. At the origin,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sacra di San Michele, history]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:07:54 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Foundations and the first constructions of the abbey]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The arrival to the Sacra di San Michele]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Meeting  the sanctuary]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The entry of the sanctuary]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The large staircase]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The door of the zodiac]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The church]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Towards the monastery]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The black virgin of Meillers]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Since always, Meillers and its area were devoted to the goddess-mother, then with the virgin. The black virgin of Meillers is a virgin in majesty of XI th century, which was strengthened in XV th. the popular belief makes of it a gift of Saint Louis and... ]]></description>
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