Animation for children at the Basilica of Avioth

Name: Animation for children at the Basilica of Avioth
Start: 2021-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Basilique Notre-Dame

Game of the giant goose "Avioth, its nature, its environment"

18 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

Free admission

Types d'événement

Animation Jeune public

Thème 2021

No selection

Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Basilique Notre-Dame

Place de l'Abbé Delhotel, 55600 Avioth

Meuse
Grand Est

Appearing in the course of a small sinuous road across the campaign(countryside), the basilica of Avioth nicknamed "basilica of fields", the visitor is a surprise. This church of the XIIIth and XIVth centuries is remarkable for its external architecture: stone filigrees of the south and west portals(gates), fantastic gargoyles, mysterious sculptor and his(her,its) internal ornaments of time(period): stained-glass windows, furnitures of the chorus(choir), polychrome statues as well as the statue of the Virgin(Virgo) miraculous appearance of which was at the origin of the edification of the basilica and to that they attribute(award) since numerous miracles. Jewel of art Flamboyant Gothic, Recevresse, intended(designed) to receive the offertories of the pilgrims, is a quite unique monument. Place of pilgrimage mattering, in the past property of the Luxembourg, this building was considered for a long time as the most beautiful church of the Luxembourg.