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Visite de l'Eglise Notre-Dame de la Tronchaye
Journées du Patrimoine (National Heritage Days), Visit
in Rochefort-en-Terre
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Free visit to the Notre-Dame de la Tronchaye church.
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This building dates from the 12th and 16th centuries and has a flamboyant Gothic style facade and a Romanesque bell tower. It is out of the center of the city and located on sloping ground. Popular tradition tells that in the 10th century, at the time of the Norman invasions (Vikings), a priest hid, in a hollow tree trunk, a wooden statue representing the Virgin and her child in order to save it from looting. Two centuries later, a shepherdess would have found this statue in this same trunk....
This building dates from the 12th and 16th centuries and has a flamboyant Gothic style facade and a Romanesque bell tower. It is out of the center of the city and located on sloping ground. Popular tradition tells that in the 10th century, at the time of the Norman invasions (Vikings), a priest hid, in a hollow tree trunk, a wooden statue representing the Virgin and her child in order to save it from looting. Two centuries later, a shepherdess would have found this statue in this same trunk. A church was then built, on the very spot where the statue was found. This story even gave it its name, “Notre-Dame de la Tronchaye”.
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