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Friday 15 September 2023, 16:00Passed
Conditions
Free. Free admission. Limited to 20 people per guided tour of the hospital. Departure at 4pm, 5pm and 6pm. Duration: 45 min. Opening of contemporary archives: 16h to 19h.
September 2023
Friday 15
16:00 - 20:00

Hôtel du département

1633 avenue du Général Leclerc, 47000 Agen
  • Lot-et-Garonne
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Guided tours of a former hospital and the contemporary archives centre

Take a guided tour of the hotel in the department. A former general hospital founded by Louis XIV at the end of the 17th century, this place has successively become a prison, a begging depot and in th
Friday 15 September 2023, 16:00Passed
Conditions
Free. Free admission. Limited to 20 people per guided tour of the hospital. Departure at 4pm, 5pm and 6pm. Duration: 45 min. Opening of contemporary archives: 16h to 19h.
©Département 47

Take a guided tour of the department hotel. Former general hospital founded by Louis XIV at the end of the seventeenth century, this place has successively become a prison, a begging depot and finally a hospital dedicated to Saint Jacques, which saw the birth of many lot-et-garonnais. Since the 1990s, it has hosted the institutions of the departmental council of Lot-et-Garonne.
You will visit the courtyard of honor where stands a magnificent cedar of Lebanon, the former morgues or the old chapel, converted into a hemicycle where decisions are made that govern the life of the department.
Between 18:30 and 18:45, there will be a heritage aperitif centered on the history and heritage of the Lot-et-Garonne until 20:00.
The contemporary archives of the hotel of the department, located in the former maternity hospital of the hospital Saint-Jacques open their doors. This centre, which preserves the archives from the 1940s to the present, will be presented to you by the archivists. They will show you original documents, as well as methods of conservation.

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Gratuit
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Tout public

About the location

Hôtel du département
1633 avenue du Général Leclerc, 47000 Agen
  • Lot-et-Garonne
  • Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Hospital - factory created in 1685 to accommodate and to propose work to the poor people and baggars, then barracks and finally prison before becoming again a hospital. Stone monumental architecture of size. Monumental staircase. Door topped with a front wall(pediment). Park with cedars of Lebanon.
Tags
Édifice hospitalier, Espace naturel, parc, jardin
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