Discovering the history of the «stone» of Euville

Name: Discovering the history of the «stone» of Euville
Start: 2021-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Grande Carrière

Take advantage of guided tours of the Grand Carrière d'Euville to discover the history of the city through the stone that made it famous.

17 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

Free.

©Carrieres d'Euville

Take advantage of guided tours of the Grand Carrière d'Euville to discover the history of the city through the stone that made it famous.

The site of Euville is unique in the dimension of its careers and in its history. Located in front of a majestic front, the animation center of the Grande Carrière size workshop is a privileged place to learn about geology.
An exhibition space and a marked path allow to discover the history of these quarries, their geology, their specific nature.

About the location

Grande Carrière

32 Chemin de Gonfontaine, 55200 Euville

Meuse
Grand Est

An exhibition on 600 m2 presents, in the size workshop of the Grande Carrière in Euville, the history of these fifty years that made the influence of the city.
It shows the importance of this career through the exploitation of stone in the Commercy basin, but also the human aspect of the work, the evolution of techniques and also the social life that it has been able to generate. The stone of the quarries of Euville, exploited in 2nd part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth, was chosen to build the foundations of the greatest monuments such as:
* Stanislas Square in Nancy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
* the Palais Garnier,
* the entablature of the Pont-Neuf,
* the Louvre Museum,
* Paris-Est train station in Paris
* the Royal Palace Laeken,
* the Fontaine de la place Brouckère in Brussels...