Visit of the Hypogaeum of Dunes

Name: Visit of the Hypogaeum of Dunes
Start: 2018-09-15T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Hypogée des dunes

Discover one of the most emblematic monuments of high Middle Ages in Europe.

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

Conditions

On registration(inscription) from September 4th

Registration

05 49 30 20 64

In a garden of hundred-year-old conifers, a construction of 1908 rises which protects a site dating Merovingian time(period). Listed(Classified) «Historical monuments – Museum of France», the hypogaeum stays one of the most emblematic monuments of high Middle Ages in Europe.

About the location

Hypogée des dunes

14 rue du Père de la Croix, 86000 Poitiers

Vienne
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The site, of international fame, is a Merovingian oratory of the VIIth century, done up in boundaries of a Gallo-Roman necropolis by the abbot Mellebaude. He(It) establishes(constitutes) one of the most eloquent monuments of High Middle Ages by registrations(inscriptions) and sculptures which he(it) contains, unique(only) in Europe.