Animation Young audience: «Fantastic mosaic!»

Name: Animación Público joven: «¡Fantástico mosaico! »
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Martin

The art of mosaic is invited to Pessac!

Sábado 16 septiembre 2023, 10:30Passed

Herramientas de registro

05 57 93 65 40 culture@mairie-pessac.fr

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The art of mosaic invites itself to Pessac!
Young and old curious, create as a family the most beautiful mosaics in multicolored papers. A creative workshop for a first playful approach to this age-old art.

Types d'événement

Animation Jeune public

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit, Sur inscription

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Église Saint-Martin

Place de la Ve République, 33600 Pessac

Gironde
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The church of Pessac no longer has architectural remains from the Romanesque period, at which time the church is attested. The term Saint Martin indicates an ancient origin of this church, before the XII century. The archaeological excavations, the historical archives and the architectural analysis of the present church, tell us about the history of the building over the centuries.
It is built on the site of a Gallo-Roman villa and on a probable Merovingian cemetery. This is evidenced by the discovery, in 1882, of a pavement of Gallo-Roman mosaic and that of a limestone sarcophagus.
The base of the bell tower, from the medieval period, is currently the oldest part of the building, with foundations dated to the end of the Gothic period. In the 17th century, the Jesuits of the Collège de la Madeleine restored the church: the bell tower rebuilt and raised, is topped with a pavilion roof; an elegant portal framed by flat pilasters, crowned with a pediment opens on the ground floor.
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