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


 

Registered on the list of Historical Monuments

 
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Originally, it was an 11th century church that was modified. The interest of this church is its bell-tower wall and its gate.
The bell tower has four identical superb bell bays, with semicircular arches, open gables, aligned at the same horizontal level. They are highlighted by a bevelled horizontal panel that runs the length of the façade, at the height of the crowning ornament at the top of two very slender buttresses, which rise in one go, framing the portal. The top of the bell tower is crowned with a stone cross in a circle.

The gate, made of four curves, is in the Romanesque tradition. Each curve is made of a pointed arch in the shape of a torus (a large convex moulding) with a projection heightened by a light rod, and is separated from the next one by a broad concave moulding with a quarter-circle profile, with one side thicker than the other.
The arches sit on small capitals, supported by small, thin columns.
On the first arch, one can see three human heads.
On the portal’s capitals, one can see laurel leaves and circles ornamented with motifs that evoke flowers with stylized petals, and sun wheels with four spokes.

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