Articles populaires – Sacred places

11 juin 2007

Givarlais (Allier)

Easy to find, the menhir is in the borough: it measures nearly 2 m height and is surmounted by a cross since the XVIIème century. (Many stones were christianized at the Average Age and at the time modern, to drive out the last traces of paganism).The...

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11 juin 2007

The menhir of Bègues

Of the Celt Nozzle or Beg meaning “advanced rock point”, Bègues overhangs the valley of Sioule and Of the Celt Bec or Beg meaning “advanced rock point”, Bègues overhangs the valley of Sioule and communicates with it by passages located between two escarpments....

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11 juin 2007

Conques

On the ways of Compostelle… This church was restored by Prosper Mérimée. The rescue it is not made without errors, but it remains impressionante by the energy which it releases. (I do not have anything against Soulage which made the stained glasses, but...

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11 juin 2007

Colombier, the fountain of Saint- Patrocle and the Prieurale's church

The construction of the church prieurale began in XIème century, of the transformations were carried out in XIIème and XIIIème centuries in particular. The very beautiful bell-tower raised on the transept crossing is of XIIème, of Romance style. The gate...

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11 juin 2007

The crowned thicket

Always on the commune of Biesse, with a few meters of the stone to the sacrifices, here the “crowned thicket”… After makehaving made the turn of it, we noticed in the meadow a line marked in grass. Crowned network? Its width was several meters… The place...

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11 juin 2007

Cham of the Bondons

No comments before to have visited the following sites: http://perso.orange.fr/deesse-mere/1menhir.htm http://prehist.free.fr/bondons/ The first being closer to my vision of the things, the second having a more archaeological approach. Us here thus in...

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11 juin 2007

Mother-fountain, in Brocéliande

It appears that it is the key source of all water of the forest. It was collected by the owner, a few years ago. The basins druidic are still present, the first, round, where collecting is. It is drained. The second, square, are used as outfall with the...

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11 juin 2007

Study symbolic system of the cathedral Saint -Etienne of Bourges

Measurements on the ground give: 121,60 meters length, 40,50 meters of width, 37,15 meters height. Esoteric metrology gives to dimensions known as pythagoricians: 399 feet (overall length), 333 feet (length of the nave), 133 feet (interior width). The...

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11 juin 2007

The Saint-George church of Bourbon Archambault

Archambault bourbon-from which the name is drawn at the same time from the Celtic god from the sources, Borvo, and of the first family of the Bourbons, Archambault, is known since Antiquity for the virtues of its thermal spring. Located on the Roman way...

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11 juin 2007

The furnace bridge of the church Notre-Dame d' Avenas

The remarkable carved and classified furnace bridge, with its Christ in majesty surrounded of the twelve apostles and the representation of the foundation of the church, make of it one of the wonders of the clunisian Romanesque art finishing the XIIth...

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11 juin 2007

Pilasters of the church of Avenas

The apse in half dome of the church of Avenas is decorated with pilasters. There are 4 of them (ground, matter), separating 3 windows. These pilasters, or posts, look curiously like some pillars of the church of Belleville, (which of egg or hen…) but...

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11 juin 2007

The church Notre-Dame d' Agonges

The church of Agonges was built on a central mound, in the middle of a series of worked hillocks make of hand of man or work observation posts of defense. Depending until the revolution of the diocese of Bourges, possession of the abbess of Saint-Menoux,...

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11 juin 2007

Notre-Dame vault Of the Round of Chazeuil

On a monticule which skirts the Allier and the railroad, at some steps of the castle of Chazeuil, rise the antic chappel of the Round, dating from XIth century. A legend is attached to it: a statue of the virgin appears first of all initially in the church...

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11 juin 2007

Monestir de Poblet, the major cloister and the chapter house

Then comes the major cloister: Its construction begins at the end from the XIII ème century. Its dimensions are rather imposing: 40 X 35 meters. It is divided between novel and Gothic. The galleries are traversed benches of stones on which the monks sat...

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11 juin 2007

Monestir de Poblet, history

Located in a splendid site of the region of Conca de Barberà, Catalonia, inhabited since the prehistoric times, protected by the mountains from Prades, the monastery of Poblet one of most important and best is preserved world cistercian. If you want to...

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11 juin 2007

The royal abbey of Creus Health, the abbey one

Return to the abbey church. It is in the shape of Latin cross. With its bedside, only is detached the central, square apse. The 4 side apses do not have external projection, which vcontribue to support the provision in cross. There are 3 naves separated...

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11 juin 2007

The royal abbey of Creus Health, the cloister

The cloister forms a rectangle of 35 meters by 40. The original plan envisaged a square of 35 on side. The new layout includes the small temple with the wash-hand basin, located at the place indicated in the ideal plan of a cloister cistercian. Of course,...

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11 juin 2007

the vault of Saint Alban

Between saint Hymetière and Simandre, in direction of Montagna-le-templier, prélasse myself the small vault Saint Alban. Beside it Suran runs, which we will find going along the menhir of Simandre. construction does not have anything extraordinary, but...

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11 juin 2007

Rocamadour

An important Celtic tradition remains in Rocamadour, with the permanence of one worship to the goddess-mother, in the “dark valley”, dug by Alzou in Causse: Cybèle, then Venus, and finally the Virgin Mary, in the shape of a black virgin. http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/vierges_noires__fichier/index.html...

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11 juin 2007

The black virgin

Since always, Mills and its area were devoted to the goddess-mother, then with the virgin. The black virgin of Mills is a virgin in majesty of XIème century, which was strengthened in XVème. the popular belief makes of it a gift of Saint Louis and the...

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11 juin 2007

The vault St Martin

Built in 1040 to support the southern arm of the transept, it preserved its original state. Its intérieurs' volume registers in a perfect cube. It is during crypt of Notre Dame of Trentes candles, of course impossible to visit except visit conference…...

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11 juin 2007

The Midsummer's Day cathedral

The Saint-Jean-Baptist-and-Saint-Étienne church is the cathedral and primatiale of Lyon. The term of primatiale comes from that of Primacy of Gaules, titrates historical of the bishop of Lyon: the cathedral was recognized like such in 1079 by the pope...

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12 juin 2007

The church St Michel in Guard-Adhémar

The borough of the Guard-Adhémar preserved its medieval structure, enclosed in ramparts in edge of a rocky outcrop dominating the plain of Pierrelatte. This plain was colonized at the Roman time by the veterans of the Roman legions (I th century). Recent...

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11 juin 2007

Beaune-of Allier, Saint-Aignan fountain

Beaune-to Allier comes from Belna, 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 fountain is also a christianized Gallic crowned source...

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11 juin 2007

The fountain of Chateloy

Occupied since prehistory, the site of Chateloy was place of worship druidic, before the establishment of the Gallo-Roman city of Cords. The virgin with the child presenting a bunch of grape is out of sandstone of Alsace. Work of ceramist A. Wattel, it...

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