Guided tour of a 14th century church

Name: Visita guiada a una iglesia del siglo XIV
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Michel

Come and discover this 14th century church, reworked over time, and its superb murals dating from the late Middle Ages and the 16th century. Guided tours will be conducted on the SA…

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

©Château de Montaner

Come and discover this 14th century church, remodeled over time, and its superb murals dating from the late Middle Ages and the 16th century. Guided tours will be conducted on Saturdays at 11am, 3pm and 4.30pm and on Sundays at 3pm and 5pm.

About the location

Église Saint-Michel

Lavielle, 64460 Montaner

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Church of the fourteenth century presenting a set of wall paintings of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is composed of a nave of three spans, a polygonal choir, crossed warheads with chamfered profiles (except plaster cradle in the first west span). The crossing of the nave vaults is ensured essentially by an internal buttress on which fall the arches of a deep niche constituting lateral chapel. The walls of the nave could be earlier than the sixteenth century, at least in some of their parts. On the outside, the roof shows the elevation of the choir by a roof arrangement in a steeply sloped pavilion. The west entrance door in a pointed arch is surmounted by a Chrism engraved in a square where the words Rex, Lux and Lex intertwine with the usual symbols. In the choir, Régence woodwork frames the entire high altar. The entire wall is covered with paintings. A large composition represents Paradise, Purgatory and Hell.