Guided tour

Name: Visite commentée
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:15:00+02:00
Location: Cloître de la Psalette

Discover the hidden treasures of the cloister. You will discover its history, its architecture still medieval and already renaissance, its school of music, the psalette and the work of the canons

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 11h00, 14h00, 14h30, 15h00, 15h30, 16h00, 16h30Passé

(c)Patrick Müller / Centre des monuments nationaux

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Thème 2022

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À propos du lieu

Cloître de la Psalette

Cathédrale de Tours, 37000 Tours

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

The cloister of Psalette, located on the side of the cathedral of Tours(Ballots,Towers), is compound(made up) of three galleries architecture of which is partly flamboyant and partly Renaissance. A staircase in remarkable screw, which is reminiscent that of the wing François Ier of the castle of Blois, leads(drives) to the scriptorium and to the bookshop of the chapter. In the XIXth century, Balzac pulled one of his characters of The human comedy, the priest of Tours(Ballots,Towers) there.