Guided tour of the historic Centre of Remiremont

Name: Guided tour of the historic Centre of Remiremont
Start: 2018-09-15T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-15T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Eglise abbatiale Saint-Pierre et crypte romane

A guided tour of the canonical district on the steps of the ladies canonesses. Of the Abbey church St-Pierre in the pomps of the abbey Palace, travel(browse) the prestigious history(story) of Remiremo

Saturday 15 September 2018, 15:00Passed

Conditions

Free

OT Remiremont Plombières les Bains

Follow your guide and go off to explore the Fabulous history(story) of Remiremont, that of the most prestigious noble female Chapter of Europe, Remiremont for you confides: chapels Romanes du XIème century, the minster, the Canonical district and its Palace.
Be allowed be a surprise by our history(story), unique(only) and extraordinary, that of the first female monastery of Lorraine which will become in the course of the centuries The Female Chapter most beaming with Europe.
On the track(runway) of these princesses d' Empire we will discover together one thousand and one treasures: A sarcophagus 1000-year-old old man, a divinatory pond, a reliquary at least surprising, a wooden Virgin(Virgo), a day cabinet(office) in the sumptuous decorations(sets), a big(great) Italian-style lounge(show); one thousand and one intrigues: a 2-year-old Abbess, a duke de Lorraine in the too wide Coach, a Secret Lady

About the location

Eglise abbatiale Saint-Pierre et crypte romane

Place Henri Utard, Remiremont

Vosges
Grand Est

Based(Established) in Carolingian time(period), she(it) was widely changed in time. In the XIth century, a second church is established, of which he(it) stays in us the Romance crypt. It is possible to admire tracks of wall paintings(paints) there of the XIVth and XVth centuries, as well as sarcophagi and the coffin of the happy mother Alix Clerk. A Gothic church is dedicated in 1299 above the Romance church, after hundred working years. Of this time(weather) testifies its nave sober, but majestic, illuminated by a decoration(set) of rays of sunshine painted on the keys of vault. Of time(period) Renaissance, it keeps(guards) its portal(gate) opening Pierre on the street of the Frank - sculpted of heads, candelabrums and plant volutes. In 1682, a violent earthquake ruins its Gothic bell tower, which will be completely rebuilt only in 1805, year when it is combed(put on) of its such an original bulb. As for the splendid chorus(choir) decorated with marble and with gypserie, it dates the environment(middle) of the XVIIIth century. Set in a retable very beautiful, ancient skulls observe us since their reliquaries. Stained-glass windows and big(great) rosette in the effigy of the holy founders of Remiremont light(enlighten) the church widely. In the middle of other beautiful sculptures, they will not fail to admire the miraculous Romance Virgin(Virgo) presented behind its golden railing(bar). Finally, his(her,its) great organ, dating of 1845, is regularly played for concerts.