Nature Trail of Calvary

Name: Nature Trail of Calvary
Start: 2022-09-16T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Le calvaire

Interpretive itinerary highlighting the heritage and ecological riches of the Calvaire area of Megève

16 - 18 September 2022Passed

Mairie de Megève

The Nature Trail of Le Calvaire is a loop route from the centre of the village. With a playful and interactive furniture for families, it is an invitation to discover the mountain environment, while having fun: reading a landscape, the architecture of a traditional farm, observing geological curiosities, unlock the secrets of the forest and its inhabitants, awaken the memory of the old ski jumps… From 6 years Loop of about 1 hour on 1.8 km and 80 m of altitude.

About the location

Le calvaire

Montée du Calvaire, 74120 Megève

Haute-Savoie
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Between the heart of the capital and the plateau of Mont d'Arbois, rises one of the only Sacred Mountains, those mountains of the Passion marked by chapels and scenes of the ascent to Calvary, that count our country. Built between 1840 and 1878, Le Calvaire de Megève is primarily the work of a man, Father Ambroise Martin (1791-1863), parish priest of Megève from 1820 until his death. It consists of fifteen chapels and oratories, staged on the first slopes of the mountain, depicting the stations of the Way of the Cross leading to Jerusalem’s Golgotha. The different buildings, which borrow from all the architectural styles of the past, house about fifty painted wooden statues, generally life-size, completed by frescoes and trompe-l'oeil. Architecture, sculpture and painting combine here to evoke in striking images of realism the life and passion of Christ. This beautiful ensemble was once a place of pilgrimage so important that it earned Megève the nickname of «Savoisian Jerusalem». Toda