Guided tour: the Cathedral of Moûtiers and its millennia-old strata

Name: Visita guiada: la catedral de Moûtiers y sus estratos milenarios
Start: 2022-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

Both Romanesque, Gothic, Classical and Neoclassical, the Cathedral of Moûtiers is a precious testimony to the evolution of architectural styles.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

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Moûtiers Culture et Patrimoine

The Saint-Pierre de Moûtiers Cathedral, which has been renovated many times and never completely destroyed, now offers a panorama of architectural styles from the 11th to the 19th centuries. This guided tour will represent a small trip in space but no less than a millennium of crossing time.

About the location

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

Place Saint-Pierre, 73600 Moûtiers

Savoie
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The cathedral of Moûtiers, cathedral the diocese of Tarentaise, is the witness(baton) of a long history(story). Its bedhead belongs to lombardic Romanic style with its blind arcature and its lésènes. This bedhead is also a document of the history(story) of the archbishops counts of Tarentaise, spiritual but also civil heads, since ravens call back(remind) that a hourd served in the past in the defence moved closer to the monument. Scene change and change of century when the main facade is discovered: they pass first under a monumental hall in the style of the XVIIth century and the work of the master(teacher)-bricklayer genevois François Cirgat, a work of Gothic laces was realised in 1561 is then discovered. By entering the monument, the journey in time(weather) is continued: naves were raised(found), after revolutionary damages, in neoclassical style. Finally, the front chorus(choir) is characterised, at the crossroads of the transept, by monumental one dome on pendants, topped with a lanternon. We are there still in the XVIIth century. It is possible to discover decorations(sets) realised, by 1830, by Viccario. The whole building was perfectly, and today totally, restored. The cathedral is rich in works of art. She(It) offers a big(great) diversity of sculptures, since the Romance Virgin(Virgo), via(including) the cathèdre who manifests Gothic period, up to the exceptional Entombment. Cut in the cembro pine, seven characters of human size, kept(preserved) a polychromy(process printing) soon half thousand-year-old. They will not forget in this visit to admire the big(great) picture(board) of the mauriennais Jacques Guille which represents the tradition of the May bread, venerable moûtiéraine institution who manifests the social justice of last centuries.