Vezelay Trip Overview
“When the 12th century speaks to us in the 21st …”
This visit allows an architecture that is 900 years old to speak to our hearts today.
Everyone receives essential keys to fully appreciate Vézelay and its Basilica.
For our guides, it is about being smugglers from one bank to the other, from a world in front of us to the one we carry within. It invites wonder and an understanding of the intentions and building laws that underlie architecture.
By making the stones speak, it transmits living information and not only objective information or learned content reserved for initiates. In this perspective, he proposes to enter into knowledge in the primary sense of the verb to know, “to be born with”.
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Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Vezelay, France
Trip Category: Sightseeing Tickets & Passes >> Attraction Tickets
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What to Expect When Visiting Vezelay, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France
“When the 12th century speaks to us in the 21st …”
This visit allows an architecture that is 900 years old to speak to our hearts today.
Everyone receives essential keys to fully appreciate Vézelay and its Basilica.
For our guides, it is about being smugglers from one bank to the other, from a world in front of us to the one we carry within. It invites wonder and an understanding of the intentions and building laws that underlie architecture.
By making the stones speak, it transmits living information and not only objective information or learned content reserved for initiates. In this perspective, he proposes to enter into knowledge in the primary sense of the verb to know, “to be born with”.
Visit: La Maison du Visiteur, Place Adolphe Guillon, 89450 Vezelay France
1) In the symbol room, take part in the discovery workshop: enter concretely into the know-how and vision of the building monks: discover the race of the sun and the play of light thanks to a 3-D model, the link between the plan of the Basilica and the human body, between “the rod” (measuring tool) and the harmony of the volumes,
Learn to read a marquee: there are over 150 in the Basilica!
2) In the projection room, with the film “In the shade of the Light”, attend the famous plays of light which are only visible on certain days in the Basilica and contemplate closely the wonders of sculpture
3) either leave with our road map and visit the basilica otherwise, or – optional in the morning – do the accompanied journey in the basilica with our guide.
Duration: 1 hour
Visit: Basilique de Vezelay, Place de la Madeleine, 89450 Vezelay France
At the top of a hill in Burgundy,
the old abbey of Vézelay erected in
Basilica in 1920 rises for 800 years between
earth and sky. Listed as World Heritage by
UNESCO, it now attracts a million
visitors per year. Lovers of art and history,
pilgrims, tourists, visitors from all over the world in
quest for renewal or meaning in their lives
climb the hill to discover this chef
of Romanesque art.
Accompanied by your guide from the Visitor’s House walk through the Basilica:
you will have the sensitive experience of the two architectures, Romanesque and Gothic, gathered here in a unique way, you will discover the news of the large tympanum and the carved capitals … you will take the time to see what you are looking at!
An invitation to observation, to a personal apprehension of space and sculpture, to move from a world before oneself to one that one carries within oneself.
Duration: 1 hour
