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11 juin 2007

The reliquary

The reliquary contains a fragment of tibia and a wick of hair. These relics were the subject of an anthropological study in 1974 with cranium located at Maximin saint and the bones of the church of the Madeleine with bets. Conclusion: the bones belong...

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11 juin 2007

Saint Andre Church

The name of the borough of the coast Saint Andre come from “Santi Andréa of Costa”, appeared for the first time on documents at the average age. This city is thus old and has many buildings presenting an architecture of the XI ème, XVI ème and XIX ème...

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11 juin 2007

The market

The Markets, a building in vault with wood frame, were built towards the end of the 13th century by Maître Jacques of St George.The exact date of construction of the building undoubtedly ranges between 1257 and 1309, date from which it is mentioned a...

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11 juin 2007

Remarkable trees

The coast Saint Andre has two trees more than centenaries, two willows, which unfortunately soon will be encircled by an allotment, way of Pollard.One of them presents an original association: an ash, of about fifty years, pushed in the middle of its...

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11 juin 2007

Basilica Notre-Dame of good help, Guingamp

First of all, I would like to pay homage to an immense Man… Henri Blanquart. The analysis which follows is drawn mainly from its book on the basilica. Henri, we miss you… One nowadays translates Guingamp by “white camp” or “white place”, which is not...

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11 juin 2007

Guebwiller

Church Saint-Leger (XIIème - XIIIème S.), Rhenish late Romance style. It is oldest of the three churches of Guebwiller. Built since 1182 thanks to the science and to the esthetism of the abbots of Murbach with which quoted it being born from Guebwiller...

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12 juin 2007

The valley of the nymphs

The valley of the nymphs, still wrapped mysteries, fact part of these places which one says inspired. Wonder that of a so hard and ungrateful rock spouts out continument a pure and limpid water. Not astonishing that for at least three millenia, of the...

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11 juin 2007

The church Holy-Cross of Gannat

The traces the oldest discoveries with Gannat go up to a few twenty-three million years. They take us along on the track of the brachypothères, in other words rhinoceroses of the end of the Oligocene one.Gannat seems to have been a true cemetery for these...

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11 juin 2007

The abbey of Fontenay

The church is high in a very short time: between 1127 and 1150.C' is one of the oldest churches cistercians of France. With the Middle Ages, it is preceded by a porch over all its width, which occurred with the lower part of the four lower windows of...

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11 juin 2007

Crowned fountains

Anthology of the fountains which crossed my road. All are on high vibratory levels.We thus have the sources of Plozevet, which spout out on each side of the principal door. It is about an indubitable sign which shows that a worship of water was christianized...

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11 juin 2007

Fountain St Rémy in Saint Sauvier

The parish of Saint-Sauvier, in extreme cases To combine it and of Hollow, was founded at the beginning of VIème century, into 501, by Saint Remi, came in the country following the armies from Clovis, in order to drive out the Visigoths. There was already...

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11 juin 2007

Santa Croce

History of Santa Croce If the origins of the first oratory franciscain remain vague, we have on the other hand much documents on the construction of the new Basilica of Santa Croce, which began officially losrque on May 3, 1294 the architect Arnolfo di...

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11 juin 2007

Saint-Pierre's church in Gipcy

Gipcy has a Gallic ethymology. The parish of Gipcy belonged formerly to the diocese of Bourges and depended on the abess of saint-Menoux.Built out of sandstones which vary yellow with the gray, it consists of a long nave of six spans with barrel vault...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Aignan church in Bègues

Of the Celt Nozzle or Beg meaning “advanced rock point”, Bègues overhangs the valley of Sioule and communicates with it by passages located between two escarpments.Many archaeological discoveries revealed the seniority of the site: a menhir, elements...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-Pourçain church of Naves

The occupation of naves seems very old. a megalith still located at the limit of the communes of Vicq, Saint-Bonnet-of-Rochefort and Naves attests human presence as of the Neolithic era. It represents a stylized owl.The commune was crossed by the Roman...

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11 juin 2007

Church Saint Martin's day in Coulandon

The Eastern part of the church dates from XIème century beginning XIIème century. In front of the pinion of frontage, a rectangular porch of plan was high in XVème century, called in the area caquetoire (place where one chatters). The square bell-tower,...

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11 juin 2007

The Holy church Radegonde in Cognate-Lyonne

The church Sainte Radegonde of Cognate-Lyonne was built in XIIème century. It preserved of them its octagonal bell-tower, its high pinions auvergnats in front of the transept and its trifoliate bedside. It is the only vestige of the village, which was...

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11 juin 2007

The church Saint Nicolas's Day in Murat

Murat the rich person has been a stronghold considered for more than thousand years. Bordered by two rivers, Aumance and Murat, this historical borough proudly shows the vestiges of its castle of XIème century, old Roman strengthened station, then field...

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11 juin 2007

The cave of Rochecourbière, Grignan

Located in approximately 500 meters of Grignan, the cave of Rochecourbière, papered ivy and of capillary, is inserted, under the wood of Garenne, offering a fresh and discrete asylum. Into the content, the crystalline water of the source fell drop by...

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11 juin 2007

Dolmen mushroom

During a voyage, here is a curious mushroom. Normal, we are in the Dordogne! It should not be awaked… It is quite quiet, far from the agitation of the world and the men… Celà gives me desire for making you a gift: a history drawn from a work of Mr Maurice...

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11 juin 2007

Dolmen of the stone of the fairies

The dolmen of Elba Saint in Mazerat To combine is an imposing monument. It was very abimé at last century of the inconsistency of the men. There is a precise description of the megalith going back to 1880, where he is presented like a shady walk… a wild...

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11 juin 2007

The menhir of stone-card

It is located at Champeix, not very far from Issoire. It rises with nearly 3 meters 50. Its total weight is 10 tons. It is visible by far and is known under several appelations which testify to its major print in the landscape and Dyears the beliefs....

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11 juin 2007

Menhir of Freydefond

In the north of Saint Nectary, this menhir of modest size (1 meter 50) is visible by far. It is located on a tabular basaltic plate. It was surmounted by a small block of basalt in which a cross was driven. It was broken with the revolution, was restored...

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11 juin 2007

Dolmen of Crousette with Roffiac

The dolmen is located on the commune of Roffiac, close to Verdenat. It is directed East-West and the hillock which covered it in its original device disappeared: remain only part of the superstructure.They are two supports (orthostate), in the South,...

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11 juin 2007

Brethon (Allier)

One finds all around the recélant village of many sources of the traces of old pagan worships: make Pissoire, which cured the diseases of the bladder, do it of Andars, which cured the skin diseases, Saint-Mayeul, where the rain was called, Barrel, oracle...

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