Articles populaires – Sacred places

11 juin 2007

The water supply fountains and network in Mende

In all descriptions of Mende, since the Middle Ages, one speaks about the great number of fountains. Water also curves under the houses through an underground canal system which joins the Batch. Not astonishing that a small Lady elected residence in the...

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11 juin 2007

Freydefond, in Mazirat

Freydefont, in toponymy auvergnate, would like to say “fraiche source”. It is true that water is fraiche there, and that our friends batrachians are not mistaken there. But there, we have to make in Freydefond, and Freyda is not far. Water flows dry stone...

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11 juin 2007

Holy vault Madeleine de Massiac

Overhanging the vacuum of a cliff of basaltic organ to the top of the town of Massiac, the vault of holy Madeleine, only vestige of the castle-extremely built by the family of Mercoeur to the XII ème century. With the foot of cliff, under the vault, a...

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11 juin 2007

Church Saint Andre de Massiac, black virgin of Country cottage

The church, founded at the time Romance, was several times plundered or set fire to (1379 and 1446). Its oldest parts are the southern bedside and door, the remainder having been altered or rebuilt in 1870. In itself, this church has only few attractions....

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11 juin 2007

Marsat

The worship of the virgin éxistait already in Marsat with the VI ème century, Gregoire de Tours by making mention in its “gloria martyrum”. It even tells that the workmen, incompetent to finish the sanctuary, see themselves doubled by three children,...

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11 juin 2007

Manosque

It is probably at the fifth century that the first church of Manosque was built and dedicated to Notre-Dame. “Any door to believe that the current statue of Notre-Dame de Romigier started to be honoured in this church as of the time with its construction,...

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11 juin 2007

La basilique saint Martin d'Ainay

Sur son emplacement fut construit le premier sanctuaire chrétien de Gaule. Une première chapelle fut édifiée en cet endroit au II ème siècle, sur un temple très ancien. Le confluent, entre Rhône et Saône, était une zone marécageuse parsemée d'iles. Après...

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11 juin 2007

Chapelle Sainte Blandine

Au Sud-Est de la basilique, des passages ouverts au XIXe siècle donnent accès à la chapelle sainte Blandine Un petit chœur domine une nef dont la voûte en berceau plein-cintre repose sur de solides piliers adossés aux murs latéraux. Le chœur, surélevé...

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11 juin 2007

Etude symbolique de la basilique saint Martin d'Ainay

Pourquoi Ainay ? Certains parlent d'athanacum, d'autres d'Ainacum ou d'Ageniacum. Il y a même une thèse rapprochant Ainay d'Athéna, déesse de la sagesse. Il semble que l'origine la plus probable soit celle d'Athanatos ou Athanoï au pluriel," l'immortel...

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11 juin 2007

The hill of Fourvière

The hill of Fourvière dominates the city by a unevenness of 120 meters. The Saone circumvents it with its foot. It is the last relief of the central Solid mass before the plain of Dauphiné. De Fourvière the sight towards the East covers the alpine range....

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11 juin 2007

St Nizier

The first religious building located on the site of the current church is a Roman monument, probably a temple of Attis. Attis or Atys is a divinity of Phrygian origin, parèdre of the Cybèle goddess, of which he is at the same time the son and the lover....

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Paul church

The Saint-Paul church, located on right bank of the Saone, with the foot of the hill of Fourvière, is one of the three older currently preserved churches of Lyon.The district, near to the cathedral, was a long time a shopping and financial centre very...

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11 juin 2007

Luriecq, dolmen of Rock-Cubertelle

The area of Drill is rich in crowned places and little known. Located between the Lyonese and Auvergne, it makes figure of poor relation. And yet…Many are the stones with cups, wood crowned where the fairies give each other appointment, many are the Romance,...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Pourçain church and the fountain-laundrette in Louchy

Located at the Western borders of the old diocese of Clermont, the current commune of Louchy covers the territory with two old parishes, from which one, located near the fortress of Montfan disappeared. The current church rises in the middle of a small...

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11 juin 2007

The vault of Saint Michel d' Aiguilhe

It is here that the pélerinage of Compostelle finishes. (small recall for those which forgot that the way, it is a return ticket.) The steps are there to insert to us in the sanctuary while being prepared, even thing that in Rocamadour, Holy the Balsam,...

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11 juin 2007

The Holy mount Michel d' Aiguilhe

The place crowned by exellence… At the beginning, an immense lake, then a volcano which nait in the middle of its water. The dyke appeared when the volcano was érrodé. Powerful Tellurism… Crowned mountain, protected by the difficulty of reaching the top...

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11 juin 2007

The temple of Diane, vault St Clear

Funerary Officielement vault of the old holy hospital Nicolas, founded at the end of the XI ème century. On the symbolic system plan, the presence of the temple of Diane to the bottom of the rock is explained by the cosmic analogy. Diane, divinity incarnating...

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11 juin 2007

Le Puy, the frontage

The frontage of the cathedral is drawn up with the top of a large staircase. It comprises five stages of architecture out of polychrome apparatus with stone decoration laid out like a mosaic, and coming from the careers of the area. Some wanted to see...

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11 juin 2007

Le Puy, entries

A staircase of 134 steps, which is continued under the porch, emerges under the nave. This staircase occupies all the width of the building during the first two spans, then narrows not to have but that of the principal nave more during the two following...

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11 juin 2007

The royal abbey of Creus Health, history

The abbey of Valldaura-Santa Creus was founded on December 4, 1150, date of the transfer by the large seneshal Guillem Ramon de Montcada of a field which it had with the Cistercian abbey of Grandselve, located near Toulouse. Once arrived at Valldaura,...

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11 juin 2007

The lantern of died of Culhat

A lantern of deaths is a built building, of variable form, often slim (like a small slim tower), generally hollow and surmounted of an openwork house (at least three openings), in which in the twilight, one hoisted, often with a system of pulleys, a lit...

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11 juin 2007

The vault Saint Felix de Montségur on Auzon

This vault of the diocèsede Saint-Paul-three-castles was built with the foot of the rock carrying the castle, inside the strengthened enclosure of the village. It was served by the monks of the priory of Saint Amand, dependence of the abbey of Cluny since...

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11 juin 2007

Our-lady of Béconne, the Rock-saint-Secrecy

Our-lady of Béconne to the Rock-saint-Secrecy is also called Notre-Dame of the dent. With the Middle Ages, it is the seat of a parish of the diocese of Die. The church is surrounded by a cemetery and offers a remarkable sight on the ruins of the castle...

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11 juin 2007

Menhir of Lou Donat

The Lavoute-on-Loire has a very beautiful menhir. The needle measures more than 2 meters 60. It is posed in immediate edge of the Loire. The poor one is with the abandonment, surrounded by nettles and protected by hawthorn hedges. Even the inhabitants...

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11 juin 2007

The cave

Nowadays one reaches the “rock of penitence” by a staircase integrated in the architectural whole of the high altar carried out in 1867. It is on this rock that the legend establishes the place of the layer of Marie-madeleine. The interior of the cave,...

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