Places to visit in Vézelay
CHURCH SERVICES :
- - Laudes at 7.am from tuesday to friday and at 8.am on saturday and sunday.
- - Midday service at 12. 30 pm from tuesday to friday
- - Vespers at 6. pm from tuesday to sunday (5.30 pm on saturday in winter)
- - Mass at 6.30 pm from monday to friday and 12.30 on saturday
- - Sunday Mass on saturday at 7. pm (6.30 pm in winter) and on sunday at 11 am
- Church services are sung (polyphony in four voices) by the Monastic brotherhood of Jerusalem
- Reception desk in the narthex of the basilica :
Open from Eastern to All Saint's day, on sale DVD, books-guides( french, english, german, dutch, italien)
- Service
des visites de la Basilique
Presbytère - 89450 VEZELAY
Phone : 03 86 33 39 50 -Fax : 03 86 33 36 93
basilique@vezelay.cef.fr - http://vezelay.cef.fr
The Saint Madeleine pilgrimage takes place annually on 22nd July.
A writer's house to visit
Jules Roy's house, with a beautiful garden, is situated at the top of the town next to the basilica. Overlooked by the basilica, the writer's study is preserved just as he let it when he died in june 2000. The visitors find there the real atmosphere, full of memories, where he wrote his last books. The terraced gardens of the house provide a setting of a rare serenity.
- Open every day, except on tuesday (from april till end of september)
- monday from2.pm to5.pm; wenesday to sunday from 2.pm to 6.pm
- Free entrance
- Clos du Couvent – Rue des Ecoles – 89450 Vézelay
- phone : 03 86 33 35 01 - fax : 03 86 32 36 87 – mjroy@cg89.fr - www.lyonne.com
Established in the former abbey, just above the closter. Two rooms shelter medieval sculptures and castings coming from the basilica and its surrounding.
- Open on week-end from Easter to the 30st september
- Every day in july and august from 2.pm to 6.pm.
- Place du cloître
– 89450 Vézelay
phone : 03 86 33 24 62 – fax : 03 86 33 31 84
* Le Musée Zervos - Maison Romain Rolland
Situated rue Saint-Etienne, the museum is open to the public in the house of the writer Romain Rolland since march 2006.The visitors can discover the main pieces of the legacy begueathed to the town of Vézelay by Christian Zervos. The founder of the Cahiers d'Art constituted a collection of modern art (between 1920 and 1960) where are represented by painters like : Max Ernst, Julio Gonzalez, Jean Hélion, Vassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso…and by sculptors like : Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Laurens...many drawings and water colours: Giacomo Balla, Wilfredo Lam, Joan Miro...
- Musée Zervos – Rue Saint-Etienne - tél : 03 86 32 39 26
- musee-zervos@cg89.fr
- www.musee-zervos.fr
Open from 15th of march to 15th of november, every day except on tuesday - Every day on jully and august
from 10.am till 6.pm– Price 3€ - group + 12 pers and students 2€ - free entrance under 18 years old.
Salle des
sculptures - © CGY
* La Maison du Visiteur
This site offers the reading keys of the basilica by a silde show onto a wall-screen and in the symbols room, models with commentary provided by a guide presenting the construction, solstice light variations and an interpretation of the sculpted capitals (duration 1.15 h)
- Open from Eastern to Allsaintday : saturday, sunday, monday and bankholiday
- saturday : visits 3.pm,3.30.pm
- sunday : visits 11.am,11.30.am
- monday : visits 10.30am, 11.am,3.pm,3.30.pm
- july and august : every day except on tuesday and wenesday
- midweek : visits 10.30am, 11.am,3.pm,3.30.pm
- sundy : 11.am,11.30.am, 3.pm, 3.30.pm
- Midwinter : from december 13th to 31st , visits 2.30 pm, 3.pm
- (except on wenesday and thursday)
- Place Guillon – 89450 Vézelay - phone : 03 86 32 35 65 – fax : 03 86 33 20 70
- maison-du-visiteur@wanadoo.fr – www.vezelay-visiteur.com
| * the "Cordelle"
chapel Situated on the north side of the hill, at the middle-slope in the direction of the village of Asquins, the hermitage shelter the chapel Sainte Croix built by 1150 commemorating the preaching of the second Crusade by Saint Bernard. It is in 1217 that two followers of François d' Assise - Brother Pacifique and Brother Louis - manage at Vézelay with mission to live and to preach the Gospel. The brothers Minors or Cordeliers, occupied the place where a convent was built, from the XIIIth century till the French Revolution. Sold as national property in 1791, the Cordelle chapel was transformed into stony career at the beginning of the XIXth century, then it became the annex of a farm. Buildings were destroyed then largely. Entered the heritage of the family of the counts of Chastellux from the very beginning, these acquire it by 1840. The former convent found its religious vocation in 1949, when the Franciscans established a hermitage there. The Brothers Franciscans always occupy the house. There, coexist saint
Bernard's burning soul and sweetness of Saint François d'Assise.
The monumental cross outside the buildings symbolizes the
place where Saint Bernard preached the second crusade in
1146. |
* The house of Christian and Yvonne Zervos - Foundation Zervos
3,5 km of Vézelay in the hamlet "La Goulotte", the house of Christian and Yvonne Zervos organizes during summer exhibitions of contemporary art
Artists' workshop- Visit by appointmentthe house having belonged to Yvonne and Christian Zervos- Architecture and panorama exceptional.
- Open in july and august
- hameau de la Goulotte - 89450 Vézelay
- tél: 03 86 32 36 10
