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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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11 juin 2007

Saint Martin de Thuret

I present the lady of the crusades to you. A black virgin was venerated in Thuret since the seventh crusade, was preached in Le Puy in front of Saint louis and the lords of Thuret. This one dates from the XVIIth century and has being reproduced on the...

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11 juin 2007

The cloister of Le Puy

The cloitre is rectangular: 30,75 meters by 19. The report/ratio of these two numbers gives Phi. We thus have here a gilded rectangle. Other divine proportions: in the length, we have 10 arcades and 5 in the width, 153 capitals. Unfortunately, the unit...

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11 juin 2007

Vézelay, telluric study and symbolic system

Rock of the fairies, enchanted Stones, Stone Who Turn, duly cemented to prevent it pirouetter, on which one perched a statue of the Virgin before flanking it of a monastery. We are in country éduen, Gaule hairy, druidic ground. The monks tried well to...

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11 juin 2007

Notre-Dame of Paris III

The Royal gate and alchemy The Royal Gate was and is thus still asserted by in favour of astrology and the hermetists. - The closed door, that of Saint-Anne and Saint-Marcel, was it and is still by the alchemists. With hearing them, the récepte, the secrecy...

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11 juin 2007

Huelgoat

The geological explanation of Huelgoat: these rocks come from the depths of the ground. Born with ten km of depth in the form of liquid masses in fusion, these masses will go up very slowly towards surface, will cool and be solidified with a few kilometers...

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11 juin 2007

Priory of Saint Martin's day in Salles-Arbuissonas

The priory of Saint Martin's day de Salles was rested by the monks of Cluny towards 950. A first church is finished in 1100 of which there remains the apse and the cloister. The conventual buildings go back to 1150 and were increased in 1250. After 35O...

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11 juin 2007

Saint-Paul vault or Notre-Dame of the Penny in Lacenas

The vault dominates the castle of the Penny and the valley of Morgon. Built about the year 1100, it is a good example of the first Romanesque art. The gilded stone frontage presents the traces of two large arcs plug and a door in semicircular arch of...

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11 juin 2007

The Notre-Dame's Church in Huriel

Old church prieurale and parochial formerly depending on the abbey of Déols, close to Chateauroux, Notre-Dame d' Huriel is a splendid Romance building, dating from the beginning of XIIème century.In addition to very marked characters, the Notre-Dame church...

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27 juin 2008

The Basilica of Saint-Sernin, historical

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...

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8 août 2007

The church St. Lawrence d' Outarville

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...

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8 août 2007

The Godon stone, in Tillay-le-Peneux (Eure et Loir)

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...

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8 août 2007

The dolmen of Pierre Luteau in Ruan (Loiret)

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,...

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7 août 2007

The "Pierre-clouée" of Andonville

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...

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5 août 2007

The church of Salt-in-Donzy

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...

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4 août 2007

The storeroom

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,...

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4 août 2007

Dormitories

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...

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4 août 2007

The refectory

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....

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4 août 2007

The cloister

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...

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4 août 2007

The abbey church

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...

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4 août 2007

The abbey of Noirlac, history

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...

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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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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

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 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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