Crafts at the Chevallerie: Mingaco

Name: Artesanías en la caballería: Mingaco
Start: 2022-09-17T09:15:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:15:00+02:00
Location: Logis de la chevallerie

The collective of crafts MINGACO welcomes you all weekend with 8 artists and artisans to make you discover their passions and trades. Demonstration of know-how, exhibition

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Eugénie MAISON

8 artists and artisans from the MINGACO collective will be present at the Chevallerie’s residence throughout the weekend, to show you their achievements and share their passion.
Around crafting, furnishings, graphic arts, toys, music or stone, glass and earth, they will exhibit their achievements and show you their work. Around animations, they will try to familiarize you with the trades and practices of art crafts.
They will be present in the courtyard of the Pavilion, accessible only in the circuit "guided tour" which is charged at the price of 4€ per person and free up to 12 years included.

About the location

Logis de la chevallerie

Logis de la Chevallerie, 85400 Sainte-Gemme-la-Plaine

Vendée
Pays de la Loire

The name of Chevallerie comes from the eponymous Fief housing a large Templar Commandery installed on the site in the second half of the twelfth century. Of this initial building, nothing remains. If the history of the Castle or the Noble Hostel of the Chevallerie is rich and ancient, the current set has a mainly seventeenth century physiognomy, even if we do not know the exact date of construction. It is to the Babin family (Babin des Brétinières then his son Babin de la Chevallerie, secretary - Auditeur en la Chambre des Comptes de Bretagne), owners in the eighteenth century, that we owe the current castle in its entirety, without any modification or subsequent additions, apart from various destructions. The most "modern" buildings are the large nave, recently restored and the entrance pavilion on which we can read two dates: 1768 and 1770\. The castle of Chevallerie in ruins, was bought in 2004 by M. and Mme Maison, the current owners. It is the subject of a complete restoration pro