Guided cave tours on the way to Santiago de Compostela

Name: Visites guidées de grottes sur le chemin de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle
Start: 2023-09-16T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Site des grottes de Saint-Antoine

Take part in guided tours of the site of Saint-Antoine and the Maison Saint-Yves (current Bahuet high school) provided by the Franciscan friars and students of the tourism BTS of the Bahuet high schoo

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

©Ville de Brive

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

À propos du lieu

Site des grottes de Saint-Antoine

41 avenue Edmond Michelet, 19100 Brive-la-Gaillarde

Corrèze
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

These caves-sanctuaries, partly dug by hand of man in a sandstone escarpment, perpetuate the memory of Saint Anthony of Padua who came often to this place during the year 1226\. Shortly after his death, the caves became a place of pilgrimage and a small hermitage was built there. In the last century, the hermitage was replaced by a chapel and a convent which has since become the House of Reception. Saint Anthony protects the city of Brive. Pilgrims always come in great numbers to pray in the caves, at the places of his prayer.
From the esplanade, surrounded by magnificent trees, one can follow a rough path in the middle of this peaceful enclosure to the calvary from where one discovers a beautiful panorama of the city.