Free visit of the abbey of Saint-Sever

Name: Visita libre de la abadía de Saint-Sever
Start: 2023-09-15T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Crypte Saint-Girons

Visit Saint-Sever otherwise, it’s possible! Equipped with a digital tablet, discover the emblematic place of Saint-Sever. Do not miss this monument listed as a Monument...

15 - 17 septiembre 2023Passed

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Visit Saint-Sever otherwise, it’s possible! Equipped with a digital tablet, discover the emblematic place of Saint-Sever. Do not miss this monument listed as a Historic Monument, founded in 988, freely open to visitors. The abbey is a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the Santiago de Compostela Way.
Its abbey church has preserved a very rare chevet with 7 stepped apses of the eleventh century. Many destructions and reconstructions have evolved the church whose interior is completely renovated as in the nineteenth century. 77 capitals and a Romanesque tympanum adorn the building. Its romantic organ Cavaillé-Coll in a buffet eighteenth century allows to decorate services and concerts. The cloister of the seventeenth century and the chapter house became treasure room, are also freely visited.

About the location

Crypte Saint-Girons

Place du Tour du Sol, 40500 Saint-Sever

Landes
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Prevailing Saint-Sever the valley of Adour, is an important medieval city(estate) at the ancient origins. Its strategical location explains the presence of an oppidum from the Protohistory. The medieval city(estate) was based(established) and strengthened in 1100, the surrounding wall(speaker) was extended in the 15th century including(comprising) the Gothic convent of the Jacobins. Vestiges of ramparts are still visible. In the 17th century, Capuchin friars and from Ursulines had settled down in the city(estate). The latter(These last) are the only ones to have returned after Revolution in a new convent, the hotel of Barbotan which(where) they redeveloped in the 19th century. Numerous private residences punctuate the streets of the city. They date for most the 18th century. In the 19th century, the hotel of Bourrouilhan was the one of the general Lamarque.