Free visit of the lime kilns of Rey

Name: Free visit of the lime kilns of Rey
Start: 2023-09-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Fours à chaux du Rey / Regnéville-sur-Mer

This set of four monumental ovens is an important witness to the industrial activity of the English Channel in the 19th century. A thematic and sonic journey allows you to imagine the intense ...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

CD50

This set of four monumental ovens is an important witness to the industrial activity of the English Channel in the 19th century. A thematic and sonic tour allows you to imagine the intense human activity, a century and a half ago, and to discover the history of lime kilns in the English Channel, the process of making lime, the types of kilns and the use of lime in agriculture, construction or art.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Fours à chaux du Rey / Regnéville-sur-Mer

14 route des fours à chaux, 50590 Regneville-sur-Mer

Manche
Normandie

The exceptional buildings(ships) of ovens with lime of Rey confide from now on thanks to a sound(resounding) route(course) allowing to imagine the intense activity of this site 150 years ago. This monumental architecture was before any a "machine" in which, in the course of the second half of the XIXth century, many people worked and crossed: chaufournier, quarryman, worker, customers.... The museum proposes two permanent exhibitions(exposures): "From some limestone to the lime" on the history(story) of techniques of production of the lime and "Regnéville, port(bearing) of échouage" on the maritime history(story) of Regnéville which was formerly one of the ports(bearings) mattering from Cotentin.