Museum, castle and church in Revel Tourdan (18km)
- Chateau De Barbarin : the castle terrace offers an exceptional panoramic view and was a military look-out post at the beginning of the fourteenth century, period during which it belonged to Jean de Barbarin. It was embellished by the Marquis de Marcieu, governor of the Dauphiné region during the eighteenth century. Three main construction phases can be distinguished. Indoors, the living room, kitchen, monumental fireplace, French-style ceilings. In the service quarters, the harpsichord-building and marketry workshop .
- Gallo-Roman museum of archeology: When you visit this museum, you will go back over 2000 years. You will discover numerous objects of the everyday life of the inhabitants of the former village of Turedonum. The show cases present coins and counterfeit coin moulds, pottery and finery worn by our ancestors the Romans.
- Notre Dame De Tourdan Priory : The priory of Notre-Dame de Tourdan dates back to the eleventh century. During the visit you will discover the outside of the buildings of the former seventeenth century Benedictine priory and then the church itself with its Roman and Gothic sections. Inside, magnificent frescos, religious objects, very interesting priestly vestments as well as the beautiful eighteenth century high-altar.
- Museum of Rural Craftsmanship: In a magnificently restored seventeenth century dovecote, you will discover objects of the everyday life of the time, as well as numerous former village craftsmen's tools (shoemaker, blacksmiths, carpenters). The scale models made by Auguste Coche (especially the one depicting the "stable", one of the ancestors of present day airplanes) are also worth seeing.
Contact
Association Renaissance de Revel et Tourdan
Le Pigeonnier
38270 Revel-Tourdan
Tel.: 04 74 79 54 81
[04/07/2009]
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