Look up! Stamp and postcard exhibition

Name: ¡Levanten la vista! Exposición de sellos y postales
Start: 2022-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-16T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Grange aux dîmes

Focus on regional heritage, protection and valorization.

Viernes 16 septiembre 2022, 10:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

responsable.education@ville-ouistreham.fr

In preview on Friday, the exhibition will be open and exclusive to the school public who can participate in the operation "Look up" in partnership with the Ministry of National Education, Youth and Sports.
Students will discover or rediscover the heritage of their region to learn its history and specificities, sensitized to the importance of its protection and its valorization

Types d'événement

Animation pour scolaires / Levez les yeux !

Thème 2022

No selection

I agree that the image may be freely used, provided that it is attributed to the author by name and shared under the same conditions.

Conditions de participation

Gratuit, Sur inscription

About the location

Grange aux dîmes

Place Lemarignier, 14150 Ouistreham

Calvados
Normandie

In the heart of its ancient village which has preserved a remarkable medieval heritage, the tithes barn is part of a beautiful set of rural buildings of monastic origin, recently restored. Until the Revolution, Ouistreham was an ecclesiastical, legal and fiscal dependency of the abbey to the Ladies of Caen whose abbess received the tithe (tax in kind representing about the tenth of the harvests, peaches and herds) stored in the barn provided for this purpose. This barn, which is mentioned for the first time in 1257, was abandoned during the so-called Hundred Years War period and probably rebuilt in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries using original elements, to resume its function. It was once part of the farm of the Abbey or Barony, owned by the Abbess patroness of Ouistreham. Tithe Barn