Free visit of the Cloister

Name: Free visit of the Cloister
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Cloître

Discover the convent of the Ursulines, founded in 1650.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Its chapel of 1673 offers to the curiosity an altarpiece of the seventeenth century and a statue of the Assumption of the Virgin, late seventeenth, early eighteenth. You will also discover the original wooden statue of Saint-Roch. In the inner courtyard, the cloister presents two magnificent galleries from the sixteenth and one from the nineteenth with a breathtaking view of the plain and the Forez mountains.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Cloître

Rue du Cloître, 42330 Saint-Galmier, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Loire
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Based(Established) in 1650, this old(former) convent of Ursulines filled(performed) diverse functions(offices), in the course of the years. Hospital under Louis XIV, it was lately occupied by a retirement home. Indoors, the chapel of 1673 offers to curiosity a retable of the XVIIth century and a statue of the Assumption of the Virgin(Virgo), at the end of the XVIIth century - at the beginning of the XVIIIth century. In the courtyard, the cloister presents two splendid galleries of the XVIIth century and one of the XIXth bidder a fantastic view over the plain and the mounts of Forez. Today, this place shelters cultural events, such as exhibitions(exposures) and conferences.