NOTRE-DAME-DU-CROS
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Exceptional natural place offering a multitude of possibilities: marked out excursions, discoveries of the flora...
At 2 km east of Caunes, do not miss the remarkable site of Notre-Dame-du-Cros where 3 small dry stone chapels were built, "las Capeletas", above a miraculous spring, having the property to stop the fevers. Only now, a chapel remains attached to the limestone cliff. In the 12th century, the cult becoming increasingly important, a larger chapel is erected. It is mentioned in 1119 in a bull of Pope Gélase II. The church is then restored many times, especially in the 15th and 18th centuries, and hardly anything remains of the 12th century building. Inside, the choir is richly decorated: painted canvases, three tomb-shaped altars, a prayer pulpit and a font, here the marble takes all the forms and all the colors. Place of procession during the festivities of the Nativity of the Virgin and during the Assumption, the site Notre-Dame-du-Cros was also known for the fairs that are organized there. This exceptional natural location offers a multitude of possibilities: waymarked hiking, discoveries of the flora, climbing on the 70 tracks of rock-climbing.
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Un coup de coeur pour notre famille !!!