Other places to visit in Vézelay
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 – maison.jules.roy@orange.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 + 20
pers and students 2€ - free entrance under 16 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
Open every day except on tuesday (closed from mid- january to mid-february)
from 10.30.am to 5.pm
Place Guillon – 89450 Vézelay - phone : 03 86 32 35 65 – fax : 03 86 33 20 70
* The house of "la Goulotte" - Foundation Zervos
3,5 km of Vézelay, the house of "la Goulotte" organizes during summer exhibitions of contemporary art
Artists' workshop- Visit of a party of the house having belonged to Yvonne and Christian Zervos
Open in july and august
hameau de la Goulotte - 89450 Vézelay
tél: 03 86 32 36 10
