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St Alvère in the Périgord :
the first truffle market
in France to have gone
on-line !

                

 
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Saint Front de Colubry Chapel is situated on the promontory of the same name, with a breathtaking view of the Dordogne upstream.
It is dedicated to Saint Front, who overcame the dragon Le Coulobre (legend).
It dates from the 8th century, for at least certain foundations, and from the 12th century with exceptional Romanesque capitals. The one on the south side is integrated into a series of archways, the remains of a previous structure, now gone. There is a snake that intertwines a tree filled with fruit and Eve, who takes it. Adam watches at the scene, in front of an upright character covered with an animal skin, which holds a long pastoral stick in its right hand.

The capital on the north side has three monstrous beasts.
On the west façade you can see
- A triangular wall-belfry with two bell bays topped with a cross.
- The Gothic arch portal and archivolts descending to decorated side walls. A small, very eroded human head, adorns the centre of the arc.
- A narrow window sheds light on the nave.
On the south side, a second entrance to the church with a holy water font embedded in the wall.
In the nave there are very old immersion baptismal fonts. The ground is rammed earth on each side of a central aisle made of large flat stones. In the choir with a flat chevet, there is an 18th century alter, and, in a niche dug in the wall, a statue supposedly of Saint Front.

 

Lalinde Tourist Information Office
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