Guided tour: «Happy and unhappy Saint Mary’s Church»

Name: Visite guidée : « Heurs et malheurs de l’église Sainte-Marie »
Start: 2023-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cathédrale Sainte-Marie et cloître

The historian P.L. Giannerini will tell you about the fortunes and misfortunes of Sainte-Marie Cathedral. 3 times burned, 3 times rebuilt, which explains the great diversity of its styles.

Dimanche 17 septembre 2023, 16h00Passat

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The historian P.L. Giannerini will tell you the joys and misfortunes of Saint Mary’s Cathedral. 3 times burned, 3 times rebuilt, which explains the great diversity of his styles.

À propos du lieu

Cathédrale Sainte-Marie et cloître

Place Pasteur, 64100 Bayonne

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Sainte-Marie Cathedral stands in the heart of the city, on the small hill overlooking the Nive. It is one of the largest Gothic churches in the Pyrenean region (80 m long, 33 m wide, 26 m high under the vault in the central vessel).
After the 1258 fire that destroyed the first Romanesque cathedral, the construction of the new Gothic building stretched from the second half of the 13th century to the beginning of the 16th century. The influence of the great cathedrals of northern France (like that of Soissons) can be seen in the ambulatory. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the south bell tower was endowed with the present belfry and an imperial dome and the choir with a carpeted decoration surrounding the liturgical space. This monumental ensemble arrived very mutilated by time and men until the nineteenth century.
In the second half of the century, the exterior architecture was modified and completed and its interior decoration was decorated in a neo-Gothic style. The work w

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Édifice religieux, Patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO, Monument historique, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire