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Sunday 18 September 2022, 15:00Passed
September 2022
Sunday 18
15:00 - 18:00
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Eglise Saint-Etienne

Sollières-Endroit SOLLIERES-SARDIERES, 73500 Sollières-Sardières
  • Savoie
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Visit of the church St Etienne de Sollières

Do not rely on appearances: once the doors of this church are crossed, the baroque exuberance contrasts with the exterior simplicity. Let yourself be surprised!
Sunday 18 September 2022, 15:00Passed
JF Durand

The present building is not the original one: on March 8, 1817, a huge avalanche descended from the Dent Parrachée damaged the old church. A long quarrel (steeple!) follows to know where to rebuild it. It will take the community eight years to build a new building, 200 metres upstream, safe from danger.
Inside, the decor warms the heart: no less than 5 altarpieces await you! The main one has the particularity of having been made in 1680 by Molino and Todesco, two master sculptors from Val Sésia (Piedmont) and not from Haute Maurienne, but all have special characteristics, volutes «in rocailles» or polychrome wood, which will seduce your pupils!

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Eglise Saint-Etienne
Sollières-Endroit SOLLIERES-SARDIERES, 73500 Sollières-Sardières
  • Savoie
  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Savoyard Baroque church with 5 Baroque altarpieces. Some parts of the old church destroyed by the avalanche of 1817
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Édifice religieux
Access
RD 1006 then, after the sign indicating the beginning of the agglomeration, take the 1st street on the left if you come from Modane. About another 400m. If you come from Termignon, first street on the right.