Guided tour "From Varallo to the Calvary of Megève: the origins of this sacred mountain under the Sardinian Restoration"

Name: Guided tour "From Varallo to the Calvary of Megève: the origins of this sacred mountain under the Sardinian Restoration"
Start: 2022-09-18T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T11:30:00+02:00
Location: Le calvaire

The Calvary of Megève was built from 1840, on the model of the sacred mount of Varallo, founded at the end of the fifteenth century by Bernardin Caimi at the entrance of the Val Sesia, in the Italian

Sunday 18 September 2022, 09:30Passed

Conditions

Reservation before 17/09/22 at 19:00

Registration

0682304840

Mairie de Megève

Built between 1840 and 1878, the Calvary of Megève is above all the work of a man, Father Ambroise Martin (1791-1863), parish priest of Megève from 1820 until his death. Following a pilgrimage to Varallo, in northern Italy, where he discovered a Sacro-Monte, Curé Ambroise Martin decided to build a Golgotha mègevan to erase the stigma of the French Revolution and revive the fervent devotion of the Mègevans.

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