Notre Dame de Consolation Chapel

Description

This small chapel overlooks the village of Thiezac and is famously known as the place where Anne of Austria once came to pray while she was in Vic sur Cère to take the waters. She was anxious at that time to provide an heir to the throne and a year later she gave birth to Louis XIV.

Discover this charming chapel up in the mountain. It was a place of pilgrimage and is thought to have been built at the end of the 12th or at the beginning of the 13th century and was then restored in the 15th century after it was damaged in the wars that devastated the area. Its architecture is reminiscent of a mountain shelter or a buron as they are known locally. The ceiling was decoratively painted in 1667 and then restored at the end of the second Empire and then again around 1930. Visitors are welcome and the key can be picked up from the local village shop.

Opening dates

• All year round, daily.

Prices

• Free of charge.

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