Walk from the upper town to Saint-Antoine

Name: Walk from the upper town to Saint-Antoine
Start: 2022-09-18T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:15:00+02:00
Location: Place Saint-Pierre

Catoche the storyteller invites you to a walk told from the church Saint-Etienne to the church Saint-Antoine, recently restored. Let yourself be enchanted by its stories and the monuments of the city.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 11:00, 14:00, 16:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance. Information by phone or mail.

Registration

03 29 79 51 40 patrimoine@barleduc.fr

©Catoche Conteuse / Catherine Vernier-Le Bloas

Catoche the storyteller invites you to a walk told of the church Saint-Etienne on the square Saint-Pierre to the church Saint-Antoine, recently restored. Let yourself be enchanted by its stories and the monuments of the city...

Stories such as «Le grand cortège funéraire», «Le jeune vigneron et le curé de la paroisse», la spécialités barisienne de la confiture épépinée à la plume d'oie, «Les piécettes de la Mélie au lavoir» and «Le loup de Malzéville et le duc René II de Bar» Wait for your ears and your eyes!

About the location

Place Saint-Pierre

Place Saint-Pierre, 55000 Bar-le-Duc

Meuse
Grand Est

The place(square) Saint-Peter is located in the district of High city of Bar-le-Duc, labelled «safeguarded sector» since 1975 for its urban complex Renaissance. It is dominated by the church Saint-Peter, of style Flamboyant Gothic, which receives(welcomes) two of the works of the sculptor Ligier Richier:« the Ordeal(Calvary)», representing the Christ and both scoundrels, and " the Chilling ", representing the skeleton emaciated by René de Chalon. The place(square) Saint-Peter concentrates the 5 centuries of architecture. It is lined by private residences dating Renaissance as hotel of Florainville (current Law courts), of the building of the XVIIth characteristic of architecture barisienne presenting facades adorned with a classic decoration(set) (columns, windows and front walls(pediments) with volutes) and also by a half-timbered medieval house with floor in cantilever. In the past, she was used to receive big(great) events, like tournaments as in 1559 during the coming of the king François II. Today, the place(square) lives(remains) a central space in the district of High city. She(It) gathers(collects) many animations in particular (street shows, stands(pits) etc.) during Festival Renaissance.