Guided tours of Hercul's Sources(Springs)

Name: Guided tours of Hercul's Sources(Springs)
Start: 2018-09-15T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée les sources d'Hercule

On the occasion of European Heritage Days 2018, attend visits commented by the museum Hercul's Sources(Springs).

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

CCTLB / musée Les Sources d'Hercule

During all weekend, commented visits will make you discover the most important sanctuary of sources(springs) devoted to Hercules never discovered in Gaul.
12 years of excavations(searches) between 1974 and 1986 brought to light quantity of steles and of the stone ponds which allowed to the archaeologists to present in the museum a return(restoration) of the sanctuary such as he(it) was in the middle of the 4th century on a surface of 400m ².
Accompanied with an organizer(presenter) you will put your steps in those of the come pilgrims, more than 1800 years ago, to ask Hercules to grant their wishes.
Visits take place all 40mn during the opening period, period from 10 h till 12 h 30 and from 14 h till 18 h.

About the location

Musée les sources d'Hercule

1 place Jean-Marie Keyser, 54120 Deneuvre

Meurthe-et-Moselle
Grand Est

In 1974, a farmer of Deneuvre falls on a column 1800-year-old old woman by boring a well. This fortuitous discovery is going to pull(entail) 12 years of excavations(searches) which will bring to light a hundred of Hercul's statues, mostly in a very good state of preservation. The museum builds in the centre of Deneuvre, and just a step away from Baccarat, proposes, on 400m ² and from rooms(parts,plays) of origin, a faithful return(restoration), of the most important sanctuary of sources(springs) devoted to Hercules never discovered in Gaul.