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11 juin 2007

The church Holy Andéol

The first known name of the city east Bergoïata, Celtic name of origin which pointed out its position raised on a rock dominating the Rhone. At the beginning of the Roman era, this name became Bergus or Burgum. The Gallo-Roman senators had covered with...

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11 juin 2007

The Holy-Thorette source in Villefranche d'Allier

Very close to the oratory Holy-Thorette a source is to which the pilgrims on the way for Compostelle came to draw water to which they added a little crowned rock that they had recovered by scraping of the stones of the native house of holy or to those...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint Martin's day fountain in Saint-Menoux

In Saint-Menoux, the Saint Martin's day fountain, called sometimes by people of the country fountain of good Menoux is below the church, a few 200 meters further. It is then necessary to pass in front of a baker who makes his bread with the wood fire....

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11 juin 2007

History of Florence

Florence (in Italian Firenze) is a town of Italy, capital of Tuscany and chief town of province. Located at the foot of septentrional Apennin, it is crossed by Arno. The site was occupied as of the prehistoric time, as proves it some discovered.Towards...

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11 juin 2007

Brioude 2

Outside the church, side of the northern frontage, one finds the well, aligned on an underground river. As usual, it is stopped. (I found well open and in operating state only to Notre-Dame of the spine) Sign of four subsoil water currents in addition...

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11 juin 2007

The palate Jacques Heart

“A valiant heart nothing impossible…” The palate is in the old town of Bourges. It is made mention, under the palate, of an entry of an underground grid leading to the “room of holy water”. The other entries would be located under the Lallemand hotel...

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11 juin 2007

San Lorenzo

It is one of the most famous churches in Europe and of most visited in Florence. It will be devoted first once by the holy bishop Ambroise of Milan into 393, then one second time in 1059 following important work of enlarging. Drawing up itself with the...

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11 juin 2007

San Miniato Al Goes up

The beautiful Romance church of San Miniato is located on one of the hills of Florence, from where one has a very beautiful sight on the city. It was built some time after the year 1000 on the preexistent Oratory built by San Miniato (Holy Minias), the...

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11 juin 2007

Orsanmichele

This site was a convent Benedictine at the beginning of the Christian era, and the grounds cultivated around in truck farm, probably to Arno. In 750, the oratory became a small church, dedicated to St Michel Archange, “San Michele in Orto” (St Michel...

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11 juin 2007

Santa Maria Novella

The church, the first basilica of Florence, is located on the place Santa Maria Novella. Built in XIIIème century by the Dominican ones, it replaces the oratory Santa Maria delle Vigne, built on the same site as of IXème century (from where its qualifier...

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11 juin 2007

Santa Maria del Fiore

The cathedral or Dome of Florence such as we see it today is the result of a long work which crossed more than six centuries of history. The basic architectural plan is that drawn by Arnolfo di Cambio at the end of XIIIème century; the cupola, become...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Victor church and Sainte Crown in Ennezat

Placed under the patronnage of two Syrian martyrs, holy Victor and holy Crown, the church of Ennezat, that its dimensions and its site made it call the cathedral of the marshes, offer this characteristic which strikes with the first glance, to be semi-Romance...

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11 juin 2007

Vault Saint-Bonnet in Montmelas-Saint-Sorlin

The vault of Saint Bonnet, XIIème century, was a place of pélerinages for the cure of the drop and the headaches. The bell-tower, very massive, rests on gantries in semicircular arch, integrated in masonry. Two Romance capitals decorate the door of entry....

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11 juin 2007

Saint Martin's day in Salles-Arbuissonas

The history of Salles (word of Gallic origin meaning “place where one stops”) finds the first traces of occupation as of the paleolithic one (37000 to 5000 years before J.C.). Excavations made it possible to find objects of this time, Gallic time then...

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11 juin 2007

The St. Lawrence church in Châtel-de-Neuvre

The Romance church of Châtel-of-Neuvre overhangs the meanders Allier river. The parish of Châtel-of-Neuvre belonged to the diocese of Clermont. The St. Lawrence church, located at the top of a hillock dominating the valley To combine it, occupies one...

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11 juin 2007

Beaune-d' Allier

Beaune-d' Allier comes from Belna, (quoted under the name of Belna in 1394) of the name of Belenos (Gallic god), unquestionable site of a temple with Bélénos and Minerve on a source with the site of the Saint-Porcien vault. The Saint-Aignan church lost...

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11 juin 2007

The Holy-Germaine church and Saint-Pardoux in Arfeuilles

There is an important megalithic and druidic presence with Arfeuilles and in the area (rez it Gailles, rez it Murceint, rez it Schoolboys). It was a crossing point, or the Celts, then the Gallo-Roman ones, settled. The worship with the goddess-mother...

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11 juin 2007

The church of Chervinges in Gleizé

Gleizé with the chance to have a long history and a rich and diversified inheritance.This old ground of the Lords de Beaujeu, whose certain districts go up at the time Gallo-Roman, knew important modifications since XIème century, where some rural fields...

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11 juin 2007

Vault of Chevesne in Denicé

We find the trace of the village of Denicé, as Daniceus, as of XIème century. The vault of Chevesne de Denicé dates from XIIème century. It was rebuilt in XVème and was restored recently by the Catelan architect. The decoration is of style Gothic blazing...

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11 juin 2007

Church Saint Martin's day in Besson

A donation of September 20, 1077, of the bishop of Clermont, Durand, in Guillaume, prior of Saint-Pourçain on Sioule, makes appear Saint Martin's day de Besson among the possessions of the abbey of Tournus. At the revolution, the church was put at the...

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11 juin 2007

Church of the Holy Trinity in Autry-Issard

Autry-Issard belongs to the way of Saint-Jacob in Bourbonnais, which was reconsidered little time ago. A layout was established according to thorough research and was elaborate in order to propose to the pilgrim of the way of Jacques Saint in Bourbonnais...

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11 juin 2007

Brioude

The construction of Saint-Julien de Brioude was spread out over more than one century. Three or four project superintendents followed one another there.Saint Julien was a martyr of the 4è century. Several churches followed one another thus above its tomb....

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11 juin 2007

SteThérence

Sainte Thérence was a humble shepherdess who lived at the beginning of VIème century. One day that it crossed to ford to join the hermit Saint Marien, a storm caused a sudden rising. Whereas it drowned, the voice of God stopped the floods. To thank the...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Denis's church in Deux-Chaises

The church is Romance and dates from XIème and XIIème centuries. The parish of Two-Chairs belonged formerly to the diocese of Bourges. The church belonged to the Saint-Denis abbey close to Paris, then it passed in the possessions of that of Chapelaude...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Pierre's church in Châteloy

This church of XIIème century, built on a headland dominating Aumance, is equipped with broad buttresses. The capitals are decorated foliages, birds or scales. The murals of the apse date from XIIIème century and were the repair object in XVème. The church...

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