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An aerial view of a historic town with a prominent church, surrounded by residential buildings and fields. 1
An aerial view of a historic town with a prominent church and surrounding buildings. 2
A cathedral nave with high arched ceilings and rows of columns. 3
A crowd of people in a public space, some raising their hands. 4
A person interacting with a large, vertical, geometric structure in an indoor setting. 5
By La Maison du Visiteur

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Free cancellation available
Price is CA $33 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Skip the line
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • “When the 12th century speaks to us in the 21st …”
    This visit allows an architecture that is 900 years old to speak to our hearts today.
    Everyone receives essential keys to fully appreciate Vézelay and its Basilica.
    For our guides, it is about being smugglers from one bank to the other, from a world in front of us to the one we carry within. It invites wonder and an understanding of the intentions and building laws that underlie architecture.
    By making the stones speak, it transmits living information and not only objective information or learned content reserved for initiates. In this perspective, he proposes to enter into knowledge in the primary sense of the verb to know, “to be born with”.

Activity location

  • La Maison du Visiteur
    • Place Adolphe Guillon,
    • 89450, Vezelay, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • La Maison du Visiteur
    • Place Adolphe Guillon,
    • 89450, Vezelay, France

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Visit the Basilica in 2 steps

  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • English

Duration: 2 hours: Immersive tour of the Vézelay Basilica in two stages: at the Visitor's House and in the Basilica

Starting time: 2:30PM
Price details
CA $32.94 x 1 AdultCA $32.94
Total
Price is CA $32.94
Until Sun, Aug 30

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    The offering to the Basilica

Know before you book

    • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
    • Wheelchair accessible

Activity itinerary

La Maison du Visiteur

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
1) In the symbol room, take part in the discovery workshop: enter concretely into the know-how and vision of the building monks: discover the race of the sun and the play of light thanks to a 3-D model, the link between the plan of the Basilica and the human body, between “the rod” (measuring tool) and the harmony of the volumes, Learn to read a marquee: there are over 150 in the Basilica! 2) In the projection room, with the film “In the shade of the Light”, attend the famous plays of light which are only visible on certain days in the Basilica and contemplate closely the wonders of sculpture 3) either leave with our road map and visit the basilica otherwise, or - optional in the morning - do the accompanied journey in the basilica with our guide.

Basilique de Vezelay

  • 1h
At the top of a hill in Burgundy, the old abbey of Vézelay erected in Basilica in 1920 rises for 800 years between earth and sky. Listed as World Heritage by UNESCO, it now attracts a million visitors per year. Lovers of art and history, pilgrims, tourists, visitors from all over the world in quest for renewal or meaning in their lives climb the hill to discover this chef of Romanesque art. Accompanied by your guide from the Visitor's House walk through the Basilica: you will have the sensitive experience of the two architectures, Romanesque and Gothic, gathered here in a unique way, you will discover the news of the large tympanum and the carved capitals ... you will take the time to see what you are looking at! An invitation to observation, to a personal apprehension of space and sculpture, to move from a world before oneself to one that one carries within oneself.

Location

Activity location

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    La Maison du Visiteur
    • Place Adolphe Guillon,
    • 89450, Vezelay, France

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    La Maison du Visiteur
    • Place Adolphe Guillon,
    • 89450, Vezelay, France

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