Discover a former Commandery under restoration

Name: Discover a former Commandery under restoration
Start: 2023-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Commanderie de Sallebruneau

For the European Heritage Days, visit the outside of the building accompanied by the members of the association, all volunteers, who have been restoring the premises since July 1974\. A breakdown...

Sunday 17 September 2023, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Free admission. The tour takes place outside the building.

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For the European Heritage Days, visit the exterior of the building accompanied by the members of the association, all volunteers, who have been restoring the place since July 1974. A panel on the evolution of the work and the garden of medieval inspiration will also be presented.

About the location

Commanderie de Sallebruneau

2-224 Sallebruneau, 33760 Frontenac

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

• Presentation The preceptory consists of two adjoining buildings: the church (built in the twelfth century) in the south and the castle (fortified house of the sixteenth century) in the north whose plan is part of a quadrilateral has for exterior dimensions approximately: 19.5 metres by 24.6 metres. The layout of the house in the north is mentioned several times in the preceptories of Saintonge and Aunis. Given that this architectural element has disappeared from almost all the establishments in Aquitaine, it is difficult to establish the same conclusion for our region.
Despite the damage brought by the vicissitudes of local history: the end of the Hundred Years' War, local conflicts with neighbouring seigneuries and wars of religion, Sallebruneau is a remarkable witness to the end of the Middle Ages. One of the reasons for the safeguard measures taken for Sallebruneau lies precisely in the presence of this dwelling and its defensive elements of great interest.
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