Discover the wall paintings of this 14th century church

Name: Descubre los murales de esta iglesia del siglo XIV
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Michel

A wonderful testimony of the beliefs of our ancestors.

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

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«The Bible of the illiterate» is offered to you through a guided tour of the frescoes of the 14th and 16th centuries that adorn almost the entire church. The Last Judgment, the Creation of the World or the Life of Mary are some of the many scenes present in this exceptional Historical Monument.
Guided tours at 11am - 2.30pm and 4pm.

About the location

Église Saint-Michel

Lavielle, 64460 Montaner

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Church of the fourteenth century presenting a set of wall paintings of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is composed of a nave of three spans, a polygonal choir, crossed warheads with chamfered profiles (except plaster cradle in the first west span). The crossing of the nave vaults is ensured essentially by an internal buttress on which fall the arches of a deep niche constituting lateral chapel. The walls of the nave could be earlier than the sixteenth century, at least in some of their parts. On the outside, the roof shows the elevation of the choir by a roof arrangement in a steeply sloped pavilion. The west entrance door in a pointed arch is surmounted by a Chrism engraved in a square where the words Rex, Lux and Lex intertwine with the usual symbols. In the choir, Régence woodwork frames the entire high altar. The entire wall is covered with paintings. A large composition represents Paradise, Purgatory and Hell.