Garden Attractions In Le Grand-Pressigny

Le Bouchet, the ideal location for your holiday in The Loire Valley

We have two superbly renovated gites in an ideal location to make the most of your holiday in The Loire Valley.
Les Ecuries, which is handicapped friendly, easily accomodates seven people and has its own private walled terraces leading out to the beautiful gardens at Le Bouchet where you can find the heated pool with its own sun terrace and children's play area.
La Laiterie comfortably sleeps ten people and has its own very large private, south facing garden which also leads out to the gardens at Le Bouchet and the heated pool.
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Places to see in ( Saint Malo - France ) St Vincent Cathedral

Places to see in ( Saint Malo - France ) St Vincent Cathedral

Saint-Malo Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in Saint-Malo, Brittany. The church was founded in dedication to Saint Vincent of Saragossa, and constitutes a national monument of France. It was built in a mix of Roman and Gothic styles during the episcopacy of Jean de Châtillon (1146-1163) on the site of an ancient church founded in the 7th-century. The cathedral suffered damage during WW2 when the steeple toppled onto the Sacred Heart Chapel. An organ which had been built in 1893 by Louis Debierre was destroyed. On 21 May 1972, after twenty-eight years of work, a ceremony was held to celebrate the completion of the restoration.

Historical records of the rocky outcrop on which Saint-Malo stands show that a hermit called Aaron d'Aleth founded a hermitage there towards the middle of the 6th-century. A Welsh monk called Maclow or Mac Law or Malo arrived to the rock and joined Aaron. Malo devoted himself to preaching and in due course became Bishop of Aleth (Saint-Servan) He was succeeded by Saint Gurval who had a church built in honour of his predecessor. This church, burnt by Charlemagne's lieutenants in 811, was rebuilt in 816 by bishop Hélocar and was given the name of the deacon saint Vincent d'Espagne who had been martyred in 304 by Diocletian. In the middle of the 9th-century, the Breton king Nominoë nominated Aleth as the location of the episcopacy and called it Pagus Alethensis.

Several elements of de Châtillon's 12th-century building remain today including part of the cloisters, the nave and the transept crossing. The choir was constructed in the 13th-century and the construction of the tower started in the 12th-century, and was finished in 1422. The south side of the cathedral and the three chapels in the choir area date to the 15th-century. Between 1583 and 1607 the north side of the cathedral was reconstructed and the north transept enlarged. In the 18th-century the south chapel was built and the façade of the cathedral was reconstructed between 1772 and 1773. A door, previously kept in the courtyard of the Hôtel-Dieu in the rue Saint-Sauveur, was brought to the cathedral in the early 17th-century and a portal from the Chapelle Sainte-Anne-des-Ursulines was placed in the south-west of the cathedral.

The layout of the cathedral follows that of the Latin cross. The vaulting of the choir and the south aisle is ogival (gothic), the vaulting for the north aisle is groin vaulting and the ceiling of the south chapel is decked with modern paneling. Overlooking the ambulatory is a stone 12th-century sarcophagus containing the relics of Jean de Châtillon, the first bishop of Saint-Malo.

At the base of the chevet is a chest containing the relics of a 2nd-century martyr Saint Célestin, given by the pope Pie VII to Saint-Malo's last bishop Monseigneur Courtois de Pressigny. In 1422 rebuilding of the tower was started using the foundations of the earlier tower. In August 1858 Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie were passing through Saint-Malo and were persuaded by Abbé Jean-François Huchet to finance the addition of an arrow to the tower spire which would be visible from the sea. There is a statue of Abbé Jean-François Huchet in the cathedral by Jean-Marie Valentin.

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Prehistoric paintings at Beerappa rock shelter, Kappagallu

​ಬೀರಪ್ಪ​ ದೇವರು ಬಂಡೆಯ ​ಮೇಲಿನ ಇತಿಹಾಸಪೂರ್ವ ಚಿತ್ರಕಲೆ, ಕಪ್ಪಗಲ್ಲು, ಬಳ್ಳಾರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ

Beerappa rock shelter is situated west of Kappagallu village and it is clearly visible from Hiregudda. The rock-shelter is revered by locals as a shrine, folks perform rituals regularly. On these rocks are several paintings in ocher depicting men, animals and fish.

Video by Malatesh C N