Setembre 2025

Dimenge 21
- 15:00 - 16:30

Église Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-Les-Églises

Rue de Lussac, 86300 Chauvigny, France

Vienne

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Guided tour of the church of Saint-Pierre

Name: Visite commentée de l'église de Saint-Pierre
Start: 2025-09-21T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-21T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-Les-Églises

After several months of restoration, discover in a new light the pre-Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre, remarkable for its frescoes before the year 1000, among the oldest in Europe.

Dimanche 21 septembre, 15h00

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©Photothèque des musées de Chauvigny

After several months of restoration, discover in a new light the pre-Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre, remarkable for its frescoes before the year 1000, among the oldest in Europe.

The choir vaulted in the Romanesque period preserves exceptional paintings: Visitation, Adoration of the Magi, Crucifixion... discovered in 1851 under a whitewash.
Around the church, the Merovingian cemetery houses carved sarcophagi, witnesses of a very old occupation of the site, probably built on an ancient pagan temple.
A rare site to explore to trace the origins of Christianity monumental.
⛪ Guided tour

Setembre 2025

Dimenge 21
- 15:00 - 16:30

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Église Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-Les-Églises

Rue de Lussac, 86300 Chauvigny, France

Vienne

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Pre-Roman Church preserving frescoes before the year Mil, among the oldest in Europe. The cemetery surrounding the building preserves Merovingian sarcophagi with ornate covers. From that time, a church was to stand at the center of the Christian cemetery. A text from the 12th century indicates that the church was built with the remains of a temple dedicated to the gods who protected navigation in Vienna. The average device used above the windows indicates a new construction campaign, and that the choir was raised when it was vaulted in the Romanesque period. This Romanesque device is above the upper level of the wall paintings that adorn the choir (the columns have begun the painted framing of the side windows). These paintings were discovered under a whitewash in 1851 and represent the bath of the Child Jesus, the miraculous Motherhood of the Virgin, the Crucifixion, Herod welcoming the Magi, the Visitation, the Adoration of the Magi... It could be Carolingian paintings.

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Édifice religieux, Monument historique

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Geführte Besichtigung der Kirche St. Peter

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Guided tour of the church of Saint-Pierre

After several months of restoration, discover in a new light the pre-Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre, remarkable for its frescoes before the year 1000, among the oldest in Europe.

Visita commentata della chiesa di San Pietro

Dopo diversi mesi di restauro, scoprite sotto una nuova luce la chiesa pre-romanica di Saint-Pierre, notevole per i suoi affreschi che risalgono all'anno Mille, tra i più antichi d'Europa.

Visite commentée de l'église de Saint-Pierre

Après plusieurs mois de restauration, découvrez sous un nouveau jour l’église pré-romane de Saint-Pierre, remarquable pour ses fresques antérieures à l’an Mil, parmi les plus anciennes d’Europe.

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