The Recollets' Site: Visits and Meetings with the Site Architect

Name: The Recollets' Site: Visits and Meetings with the Site Architect
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T12:15:00+02:00
Location: Couvent des Récollets

Architect visit of the Recollet convent.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00, 11:15Passed

Conditions

Free. Reservation required. Limited number of places.

Registration

05 59 26 03 16 05 59 47 64 56

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Restoring the Recollet Convent to adapt it to its new life while respecting its past: this is the challenge entrusted to Rémi Desalbres, architect of the heritage. From the rehabilitation of the spaces to the creation of the contemporary extension discover in his company the history of this monument and the different phases of this monumental construction.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

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About the location

Couvent des Récollets

1 place des Récollets, 64500 Ciboure

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Following the witchcraft trials and to pacify the relations between the inhabitants of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Ciboure, a convent was built in 1611 by the Franciscan monks of the Recollet branch, on a small island in the middle of the Nivelle. The chapel was consecrated in 1613 then the cloister completed in 1643\. In the centre of the cloister, a cistern was built in 1662 thanks to the generosity of Cardinal Mazarin, on the occasion of the wedding of Louis XIV. In 1791, the Recollet brothers were expelled. Then, from 1821, the convent housed the Customs Service within its cloister. The part of the chapel will host activities related to fishing as early as 1900\. Chosen to house the future Centre d'interprétation de l'architecture et du patrimoine du Pays d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Jean-de-Luz Ciboure, this former convent is undergoing an important restoration.