Saturday 19 September, 10:00

Conditions

Free. Reservation required. 35 people per visit.

Registration

collegialegca@gmail.com mediactions@laposte.net

September 2026

Saturday 19
- 10:00 - 17:00

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Visual impairment

Psychic impairment

Motor impairment

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

2 place Saint-Pierre, 17100 Saintes, France

Charente-Maritime

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

"Heritages under the microscope, between uses and protections"

Name: "Heritages under the microscope, between uses and protections"
Start: 2026-09-19T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-19T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

At the Saint-Pierre cloister - On Saturday, September 19, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.:

Saturday 19 September, 10:00

Conditions

Free. Reservation required. 35 people per visit.

Registration

collegialegca@gmail.com mediactions@laposte.net

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Visual impairment

Psychic impairment

Motor impairment

At the Saint-Pierre cloister—Saturday, September 19, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.:
Welcome workshop : "The protection of heritage: a look at the uses and obligations around an endangered heritage."
Guided tours at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. : "Patrimoines under the microscope." This visit in the heart of the historic center proposes to discover successful restorations, emblematic transfers of use as well as heritage in danger.
The course will address in particular:

the cathedral, a monument now weakened;
the donation from Maurice Martineau, an example of a successful transfer of use;
the place of water in the city through the fountains of the ancient center;
mendicant orders and échevinage, between the history of men and buildings.
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes. Upon registration.

September 2026

Saturday 19
- 10:00 - 17:00

Additionnal information

Manifestation

Journées Européennes du Patrimoine

About the location

Cathédrale Saint-Pierre

2 place Saint-Pierre, 17100 Saintes, France

Charente-Maritime

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

According to tradition, St. Peter’s Cathedral was erected on the site of an old Christian building of the 6th century, the work of Bishop saint Pallais. The current building is the result of numerous construction and restoration campaigns that span from the 12th to the 18th centuries. It is largely rebuilt from the mid-15th century and very few ancient elements are preserved. Its buttresses with pinnacles, its buttoned arches and its imposing bell tower-porch high of 72m give it, from the outside, a quite Gothic look. The bell tower that houses the entrance to the cathedral has a large carved portal. The nave is covered with a framework on the central vessel while the aisles are arched with warheads. The nave is widened by the presence of eight side chapels. The slightly protruding transept, retains in the south arm a dome on pendants of the twelfth century and opens on a long bedside with ambulatory and nine radiant chapels. Only three of them escaped destruction, including the Axe chapel, decorated in Renaissance style. Finally, the cloister which still has two galleries of the thirteenth century and the conventual buildings adjoined in the southern part complete this heterogeneous episcopal ensemble.

Conditions

Registration

September 2026

This event includes accessibility accommodations

"Die Kulturgüter unter der Lupe, zwischen Nutzung und Schutz"

Conditions

Registration

This event includes accessibility accommodations

"Heritages under the microscope, between uses and protections"

Conditions

Registration

This event includes accessibility accommodations

"I patrimoni sotto la lente d'ingrandimento, tra usi e protezioni"

Conditions

Registration

This event includes accessibility accommodations

"Les patrimoines à la loupe, entre usages et protections"

Conditions

Registration

This event includes accessibility accommodations

"Los patrimonios bajo la lupa, entre usos y protecciones"

Conditions

Registration

This event includes accessibility accommodations

September 2026