Guided tour of the Chartreuse

Name: Visita guiada de la cartuja
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: La chartreuse de Port-Sainte-Marie

A guided discovery tour will allow you to discover the specific organization of a charterhouse linked to the hermitic way of life of the monks and to know the influence of the charterhouse fathers on

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

J.Rossignol

A commented discovery tour will discover the specific organization of a charterhouse related to the eremitic way of life of the monks and know the influence of the Chartreux fathers on the history, the economy, the society of Combrailles and beyond for nearly 5 siécles

About the location

La chartreuse de Port-Sainte-Marie

63770 Chapdes-Beaufort

Puy-de-Dôme
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The chartreuse of Port-Sainte-Marie is located at the heart of Combrailles at the edge of Sioule, on the municipality of Chapdes-Beaufort. Having based(established) in 1219 further to a donation of Guillaume and Raul de Beaufort the monastery establishes(constitutes) of an agricultural and land domain until Limagne especially in the region of Prompsat. Become local Lords, the monks spread(widen) their power on the whole region and the increase of resources is accompanied by a regular evolution of the monastery. It is the Revolution which entraine the closure(lock) of the chartreuse which will be sold as very national in 1795\. Only Carthusian medieval in Auvergne, the site of the Chartreuse Port-Sainte-Marie is particularly remarkable for its archaeological wealth. It is registered in conformance with(for) historic monuments. Since 1970, an association the friends of the chartreuse Port-Sainte-Marie becomes attached to the protection(saving) of the site. Archaeological excavations(searches) are led in connection with URAC (Unity(Unit) of archaeological cartusiennes researches(searches)) what allows its history(story) of better connaitre and to assure(insure) its protection. Today, the chartreuse is an open place of more than 2 hectares which allows the discovery of the specific organisation of a chartreuse.