The footprint of the builders: the stones of the abbey tell their story

Name: The footprint of the builders: the stones of the abbey tell their story
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Abbaye de Sorde

Take part in a lapidary tour around the building materials of the abbey.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

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Take part in a lapidary tour around the building materials of the abbey.

In residence at the abbey, the stonecutter Valérie Tatin-Sauzet carried out the inventory and the study of the lapidary deposit formed over the course of the restorations. The restitution of this residence took the form of a path that allows to understand how these stones were cut, which indicates their function and their destination, revealing all the know-how of the builders.

About the location

Abbaye de Sorde

232 place de l'église, 40300 Sorde-l'Abbaye

Landes
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

In the south of the Pays d'Orthe and Arrigans, at the crossroads of the Landes and the Basque Country, is the village of Sorde-l'Abbaye. Its fame is mainly due to its abbey, built in the eleventh century, on the edge of the Gave of Oloron. The Abbey of Sorde has been listed as a Historical Monument since 1994 and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998 under the Ways of Santiago de Compostela.