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15 and 16 September 2018Passed

September 2018

Saturday 15

10:00 - 12:00

14:00 - 18:00

Sunday 16

10:00 - 12:00

14:00 - 18:00

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Accessible to the visually impaired

Accessible to the psychic impaired

Accessible to the motor impaired

10 to 99 years old

Eglise Santa-Maria-del-Mercadal

66300 Castelnou

Pyrénées-Orientales
Occitanie

Visit free of the church of Castelnou

Name: Visit free of the church of Castelnou
Start: 2018-09-15T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Santa-Maria-del-Mercadal

Visit the church of Castelnou during Heritage Days.

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

on Saturday and Sunday, come visit the church Santa-Maria-Del-Mercadal in Castelnou on free visit. A person will answer all your questions concerning the history(story) of this monument.

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Visite libre

Édition 2018

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Eglise Santa-Maria-del-Mercadal

66300 Castelnou

Pyrénées-Orientales
Occitanie

This church should be built at the beginning of the XIIth century when the population, become too important, could not meet any more in the castrale chapel. It is located except the surrounding wall(speaker) strengthened by the village and owes its name to the market which was held nearby. At that time, Castelnou was a very busy market: compulsory crossroads between Vallespir, Conflent and Roussillon. It is a Romance church with unique(only) nave with vault in Gothic arch(broken bow) and semicircular apse. The bell tower was topped up in French Revolution, as for the door of the church it was realised under the initiative of Guillaume V. It is made with some iron forged by Canigou, its speciality is that he(it) does not rust. It is also possible to see in every end of door of the mouths of chimeras put there to push away(repel) the evil spell.