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site of the concentration camp of Montreuil-Bellay

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last minute, Sunday, February 7, 2010: Two panels have disappeared!
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Most of the pictures above were taken on site of the former camp Monday, September 15, 2008.

Here is the site of former concentration camp at Montreuil-Bellay (Maine-et-Loire). Find the error ... because if the promoters of these panels had known they would be installed on the same field camp ... definitely a nice detour!

This sign tells you it's one of the most beautiful detours of France, Montreuil-Bellay, this pretty little town of Anjou, deserves your visit ...


There was a famous precedent. In January 1988, when we managed to erect a memorial stone on the site, there was near the prison, only intact remnant of the former camp, a talented panel that seemed to praise the quality of place: a camp (ing) three stars. This could only shocking, even if one could understand that the thing announced was actually not there, but beside the river and near the Castle, both in town. I then asked that this unfortunate panel retire before the erection of the stele. In vain, as you can see.
Advertising in regional newspapers this cliché was more effective than my request ... and the intruder disappeared quickly for even finally met the desolation of the landscape.

But the black humor is stubborn, and this camp is still a beautiful page of our history ...


A young horse snorts near the steps of all that remains of a barracks in the camp ... Life is here ...





Near the ruins of the imposing all kitchens, dining reservations, a billboard still tinkering with history ...


The prison cellar of a farmhouse that burned early twentieth century, disappears in the weeds. The stele was inaugurated in January 1988, more resistant to invading abandoned ...



Beyond these signs recall the chronology of internment in the former concentration camp, as he was sometimes called during the Second World War.

Here, from January 1940 to November 1945, were successively locked behind barbed wire electrified dominated by watchtowers, English Republicans, French soldiers, civilians English, tramps, Russian "White", collaborators, German soldiers , German civilians and Dutch, mostly women, and especially, of 8 November 1941 to January 16, 1945, some 3,000 Gypsies victims of an arbitrary , as conceded the title to the stele, which has agreed to mention that this single population.

Each year on the last Saturday in April, the area around the stele and the prison are cleaned to host a national ceremony. Otherwise, the site is forgotten as the memory of what it was. What political will pity?

This Sunday, February 7, 2010 ... Saturday 6
Yesterday, I accompanied Fabien Delisle, independent filmmaker Touraine who wanted to discover the site of the camp to his young daughter Lou. So I wanted to show two billboards on the specific site of the camp, I realized that there remained one. Most beautiful detours in France , had disappeared. Indicating that Montreuil-Bellay A page of history in Anjou was still in place. This is understandable, this camp is indeed one of the pages - painful - history of Anjou. As for beautiful detour , who had the incredible idea to plant it there??


Continuing our visit, I noticed the large billboard that was displayed behind the ruins of dining / kitchen / store had also disappeared.


Why the sudden disappearance of these two unfortunate panels? Until more information we can always believe that the decision was taken following their posting in this blog. As
was effective publication in the press in 1988, another photo of this "unfortunate" the Camp (ing) three stars ...

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The Thouet Montreuil-Bellay

The Thouet fluvius Toarus : first mentioned in 905. Source 225 meters above sea level near Secondigny in the Gâtine Parthenaise. 152 km, including 31 in Maine-et-Loire. Main tributaries: the Palace, the Cebron, the Thouaret, Argenton and Dive. Its network covers 3396 km ² and drains the north and south of the Poitou-Saumur. Its low flow is sometimes less than 2 cubic meters while that of its flood is estimated at 108 cubic meters per second. It flows into the Loire in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, at an altitude of 25 meters.


Until the late nineteenth century, the waterway was Thouet Montreuil-Bellay, below the floor of the castle, until his confluence with the Loire, Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent.
We discover here in the first canoe navigable reaches of the river once channeled, this floor of the castle until the first lock, known as the room.

Illusion navigation a festival day at Montreuil-Bellay.

The first reach of the waterway once Thouet in Montreuil-Bellay

A and 1 - At XV century, the lords of Montreuil, d'Harcourt, did build a series of bridges in parallel disused ford to keep the old path of the Goat, he continued. These bridges connected the two shores and islands of Thouet to reach the right bank between Tower Boëlle and Auberge des Isles which was perhaps a former grant. These bridges were repeatedly damaged by flooding from the river and finally collapsed in 1577. The old road has disappeared partially replaced by a modern dam upstream perpendicular to the left bank.

The ruins of the ancient Gothic bridges, collapsed in 1577.

2 - The ancient water mill, said Castle, disappeared in a fire on the night of August 7, 1896. The existing, disused, was built soon after the Renaissance.

3 - 4 - 6 - The port on the Montreuillais Thouet moved twice. First built left bank (port Guibert), slightly upstream of the existing bridge, he was transferred right bank (Hamelin Harbour) was built in 1710 when a new bridge (located in the extension of the current, but against the left bank ). The third port, the port of St. Catherine, left bank was created in 1862.
Port St. Catherine, today decommissioned.


4 - The first stone of the Napoleon bridge, designed by the engineer Norman, was laid October 9, 1908. Destroyed by the Germans August 29, 1944, it was rebuilt larger, as shown in the lighter color of the stone arches.

5 - The Bridge of 1710 was swept away by a flood in 1798.

Map ruined bridge built in 1710. (ADML)

7 - Base kayaking, open all afternoon on weekends and public holidays in May, June and September and daily in July and August.

8 - A floor, date unknown, "made with piles, bundles of wood and tree trunks, wrapped in clay" River bar across its width. She has created a pool of water required to operate the mill Varenne, now called the room "due to its location near the castle of the same name, slightly downstream. Around 1603, was a basin-shaped oval, the first lock Thouet for lowering boats Montreuil at Saumur. This lock, like those of Rimodan and Bron, is called "archaic", formerly closed by two doors middies, which was a big improvement over the pavement provided with a single door - as the Motte - that emptied the forebay at each passage of boats. There exist more in France than 4 of these old locks, three on Thouet so.



Thouet The former Mill Hall, Lock archaic.


Thouet walk on the foot of the castle of Montreuil-Bellay.
the extreme right, the Dovall House, birthplace of the poet Charles Dovall (1807 - 1829).

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A new ferry for Nantes

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A ferry in the city: Punta Portugalete Vizcaya (Spain)


If, in our homes, stand on a desk or a wall a few pictures of beloved parents, there is often another Nantes, as soon as you notice it is revealed: that of the former ferry whose disappearance remains as an open wound that will not close.

bridges known as "ro" were born in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when he had to find a solution to the crossing of sea or river passes by pedestrians, wagons and early automobiles without impeding the navigation of vessels, which are still sailing. Then appeared the colossal steel structures designed by a brilliant French inventor Ferdinand Arnodin (1845-1924).

Puente Vizcaya in Portugalete

The first was built in Spain on the Nervion, 1893, between Portugalete and Las Arenas, about 10 km downstream from Bilbao. The

Nantes, opened October 28, 1903, was the fifth. He had been preceded by those of Bizerte (Tunisia, 1898), Rouen (1899) and Rochefort (1900). Marseille was built after (1905), as well as that of Brest (1908, actually one of Bizerte transferred to Britain). That of Bordeaux, began in 1910, was never completed.

In Nantes, we had to connect the dock to the Grave Prairie au Duc where were the major shipyards. A project was even consider a stop at the tip of the island gazebo, but the city had preferred a construction slightly downstream, facing the Rue de la Verrerie. To avoid the destruction of buildings, Quai de la Fosse, to build the imposing massive anchor cables that were holding the pylon on the right bank, Arnodin invented a new system of express ferry said counterweight and joints.

Every day, 5 hours from 30 to 20 h 30, the cable carrying the deck which overlooked the high waters of the Seine about 50 meters, transported from one bank to another up to 6000 pedestrians per hour.

But the development of the automobile more readily accepted without waiting for a detour bridges where traditional upstream, the damage caused by the Second World War, and the costs of maintaining a work that became obsolete, condemned the ferry that could not save the crusade Nantais desperate love with their beautiful bridge. Closed December 31, 1954, he disappeared in 1958, the last car of 800 tons of scrap metal leaving the dock at Le Creusot Loire for October 7.

Why not rebuild the Transporter?

A group of Nantes, at the initiative of the architect Paul Poirier Nantes, proposes to construct a new bridge to ferry over the arm of the Madeleine. is a cross-cutting project, consensual, and especially not political says the architect. It would be torpedoed advance. It covers all the Nantais. It is a major project to help reconcile Nantes with its river.

Project of the Association of transshipment

To bring this concept of the twenty-first century, Paul Poirier created this year 2008, with Arnaud Biette, an economist and expert in industrial heritage, the Association transferred .
Association website: http://lestransbordes.fr

Passionate for many years by these remarkable works that were and are still in some places the bridges to ferry, I published several studies on some of them.

- Nantes . The Transporter , CMD Editions, 1996 (print).
- Charente-Maritime. The Transporter Rochefort, CMD Editions, 1998 (print).
- The ferries France, Bordeaux, Brest, Marseilles, Nantes, Rochefort Rouen , editions Alan Sutton, 2005.

Articles in journals:
- The Transporter Rochefort, in Picton, No. 179, September-October 2006.
- Bridges to ferry in Chasse-Marée, No. 201, December 2007.

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Montreuil-Bellay, a concentration camp during World War II

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The camp was organized along the lines so typical of the French administration, mixed ignonimie, corruption and laissez-faire .
Arthur Koestler, written between January and March 1941 about the camp of Le Vernet (Ariège), in The scum of the earth , page 168, Editions Charlot (Paris 7th), 1947.

Enter this link to watch a video:
http://www.pulceo.com/divertir/soiree-debat-a-atlantic-cine-avec-jacques-sigot


The 3rd edition of this book is no longer available, Wallada editions will come out in April or May 2011 a fourth edition which are added, among other documents, testimony from families that author has discovered, and especially the archives of religious Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who, from January 1942 to January 1945, voluntarily lived on mission inside the camp at Montreuil-Bellay to help the internees, mainly children . These records consist primarily of photographs, drawings and newspaper.
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edition can still be ordered on the site Wallada editions: http://www.wallada.fr/
Wallada has specialized for many years in publishing books on Gypsies and Gypsies. http://www.wallada.fr/nouveautes-2009-2010.html

A chance discovery ...
9 years after my arrival at Montreuil-Bellay

In 1980, I discovered that during the Second World War had raged a camp on the territory of my common for adoption. Following preliminary research in archives and with many survivors still at that time, I published it in 1983 editions Wallada first book on this subject which had hitherto not interested historian internment by France of its nomads in many concentration camps. Its title, A camp for Gypsies ... and others. Montreuil-Bellay 1940-1945.


Sigot Jacques and Françoise Mingot, its publisher, the site of the camp in 1982. On the right, the entrance to the underground prison camp (the "gnouf).

was the first time what was considered the story of a French concentration camp for Gypsies in the terminology of the time. Followed the study of other camps and the publication of this work in a special issue of Studies Gypsies (No. 2 / 1995): 1939-1946 France: The internment of Gypsies .
had been successively victims of this camp of Montreuil-Bellay throughout the conflict: the English Republicans, French soldiers, civilians Commonwealth of Gypsies (then called "nomads"), tramps Nantes, local collaborators, the Russian "White", German civilians (mostly women) and who married Dutch Nazis.
This first edition caused a large and rich exchange of correspondence which encouraged the publication in Wallada Pathways and a second book in 1994: These barbed forgotten by history. A camp for Gypsies ... and others. Montreuil-Bellay 1940-1945.

I want to thank the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, of Paris, and especially Sister Odile, who put at my disposal in 2007 all documents written by the sisters of the Congregation. They had, for four years, voluntarily shared the lives of internees, and sleeping in a hut within the grounds of electrified barbed wire.

These panels, written The Association for AMCT ( Friends of the Memory of the Gypsy camp Montreuil-Bellay ), created in order to save the ruins of the old camp remains endangered, summarize thirty years of struggle to remember a story often distorted or obscured.

Jacques Sigot, August 2008

Click on each panel to enlarge it.

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Zurich on 11 November and 6 December 2008, OJ

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Encounter with History ... in such a pretty city.

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Legend of the founding of the city Guîtres

EUDE natural son, (grand son of Caribert, King of Paris (561 567), of a king of the Franks), ruled the death of his father until the majority of his brother, the legitimate son to whom he gave up the throne. Lutece
He left with immense treasures, accompanied by a retinue of nobles and military men.

The beauty of the landscape, the sights surrounding the nipple which was built City Guîtres he made such an impression on the field he ordered the construction of a beautiful city surrounded by high walls flanked by towers with its palaces, chapels and other monuments.

These important buildings were destroyed after his death by the Goths and Normans, and debris remained abandoned for several centuries; Abbey Guîtres having been founded at the beginning of the twelfth century (3) is therefore the time that seems dated the bas-relief of the Visitation.

This stone remained, with the ruins of monuments Merovingian was reused in the masonry the church during its construction and is currently used to support the pit to the beautiful fifteenth-century structure that covers the building.

These dimensions are: height 0.50, width 0.30, thickness 0.25; very hard limestone.

necessities of the construction does not permit me to remove the stone, but I wanted to provide you reproduction of this work by several points that stings the curiosity of archaeologists and raises issues that we have a update the solution.

(3) Guinodie attributed, first abbot, the founding of the Abbey Guîtres (1108) - History of Libourne, Volume III, p 311.

History of the Abbey Church "Our Lady of Guîtres"

(Historic Monument since September 2, 1901)

Abbey Guîtres depending on the order of Cluny was founded in Roman times. It remains today that this great abbey church dating from the XIth s, so it's the church of an abbey of Benedictine monks. Religious heritage was ruled by an abbot Abbot (religious). He lived in this monastery from 4 to 14 monks. We only
unfortunately only a few traces of the abbey was built between 1060 and 1070 on the ruins of an old church destroyed by fire of the Normans (879 892).
This church was built during the eleventh century builder of giving it acoustic qualities like those found in all these buildings of the eleventh and twelfth s where s Religious developed choral singing.

is a church-oriented: his side is facing east, so the west facade faces west.
It was built for every four centuries hence the change in architecture.

Its dimensions: 57.60m long, 15.8 wide and 17m high.

Guîtres was a frontier town in the Middle Ages.
Here is the country Gabaye and on the other side of the river is beginning Guyenne. He had to cross this river (the Isle) and there were under to win and not religious the last to get paid a grant to cross the river (men, animals, goods).

We are on route to St Jacques de Compostela, here we are in mission. The land is very rich in Saintonge pilgrims and thousands have been buried in the abbey. Inside you will find a plaque which stood the altar of the Brotherhood of St Jacques pilgrims Guîtres.

visit outside

1. Place linden (classified site) that has been completely redone (1996.99) identical to its past, limes defaulters were replaced and the road serving the former treated.
   A particularity such as gas lighting was installed in Sarlat before the grand portal.
   Here there is no road
   What festivals were held there, the fiddler danced Gabaye generations of troubadours.
2. The great portal Saintongeais (west facade) in its lower part from the thirteenth century was restored around 1846 and restored in 1987 and fully in 1994, on this occasion the weather vane is repeated identically, its implementation can renew the old tradition of the feast of the cock. It is a great portal
   Saintongeais, Saintonge country is 9 km from here.
   door lintel is right, with 6 archivolts in the center flanked by two doors and feints. Above is a gallery dominated by a large gable dated XV only drilled a triple Gothic window, decorated with cul-de-lamp with a human head. Two sides oculus lightens and brighten the interior the entrance.
   A beautiful bead adorned with foliage and star-shaped ring around the column.
3. North Front : On the other hand, on the northern flank, a skirted the church cemetery, landslides and the presence of a cemetery here did that for several centuries, the lower third north was buried, as can still judge the Romanesque portal. It was in 1848/1851 that this cemetery is transferred out of the city which allowed the drilling Rue de l'Abbaye.
   In 1965/1968 we owe the creation of paved walkway allowed back into service multilobed door that was used by pilgrims to Santiago to get to the altar, St Jacques de Compostela was face within the church.
4. Portal northern facade : Prime portal arch with two archivolts ogival thirteenth century seems to have been walled up. At least according to some, it is not a portal but a recess overcoming a sépulture.Les first three windows are Gothic. Both are sealed.
5. Gate multilobed : The second portal is also the thirteenth him lobed arches characteristic of the style "Moorish" brought from Spain to France by pilgrims of Saint Jacques de Compostela. This type of gate is quite common in our region. The first church was to stop at this alignment. Above this niche contains a novel very low relief mutilated (a seated figure with legs and bare feet).
6. tombstones : In the ditch tombstone fragment (relative to the tomb) built with this incomplete epitaph: "the 14th day of the Kalends of July Arnaud died a natural right, son the master of this work. "
7. Portal North : The third novel northern portal is a rich, pure Romanesque style, it is flanked by two doors and topped by three feints archivolts adorned with beads human heads representing the 7 peach capital (Envy, anger, gluttony, lust, pride, laziness, lying). The birds perched on quadrupeds adorning one of the capitals are of oriental origin. Notice in the right corner a big Gallo-Roman marble gray.
8. The apse : The oldest parts dating from the twelfth century the north wall of the transept, the apse with ambulatory and radiating chapels. The vestry removed during the renovation of the choir and was in the northern part of the apse was built in 1704. The apse has three apses chapels of the apse as well as those of the two arms of the transept chapels.
   The large apse is crowned by a cornice, are surrounded by small arches.
   The upper wall, above the chapels, was heightened and pierced with loopholes during the Wars of Religion. There are still traces of projectiles. Chavet the wall is crowned in the attic of a well preserved cornice
9. The Belfry (on the north transept)
   accommodation, it has 2 bells have need to strengthen internal structure built As the vibrations became operational threat to the safety of the entire construction. Built in 1950, the oak frame is established in a flag and covered with flat tiles
10. The south facade is almost entirely hidden by the houses lining the streets of the priory.
    Ultimately they took the place of the old convent buildings, or what remained of the revolution of 1789. It should be noted that the first of them is contiguous to the tip of the right arm transept. It is the site of the former prior's house, which unfortunately did not survive the ravages of time and the evil genius of the man that finds its outlet during certain periods of unrest. The second presents in her garden remains evocative of the old cloister besides a few crows of the south facade reveal the presence of former convent buildings that relied on the facade of which nothing remains.
11. The roof : That of the nave was restored in all it few years ago with the old tiles carefully recovered. By its steep slope, its scope, it impresses the visitor, it is an everyday symbol of the resident.
    Those of the transept and apse more traditional in appearance require repairs.
    The Historical Monuments Fund, under the responsibility of Mr. Goutal, has established a very complete record whose importance and interest have not escaped Mr. Curator of the Cultural Affairs in Bordeaux.
    

Visit Interior

printing felt, at the entrance of the church, is striking. The visitor overlooks the nave and choir, size, simplicity Benedictine, majesty, unity, scheduling immediately strike the eye that dominates the vast edifice of the top fifteen steps of the grand staircase recently redone and providing access thereto.
Built in the shape of a Latin cross, it consists
- a nave of six bays (portion between two brackets, braces or pillars)
- with two side aisles or low
- a bedside right transept (gallery which separates the choir of the great nave and which forms the arm of the cross).
- A choir surrounded by an ambulatory (manway which surrounds the choir). All
exceptionally beautiful or poignant was detailed in the life of the abbey through the centuries.

1. PILLARS engaged in the southwest corner (2) and Northwest (3) are the thirteenth century.
   The north is the pillar leaf curl. The marquee south
   with characters with human heads. (Riders of the Apocalypse). The first four pillars of the nave were reinforced by half-engaged columns or barrels of pitch pine covered with stucco in 1839, when restoring to the court which was built four bays closest to the entrances.
2. THE VAULTS fall on the side walls, on cul-de-lamp depicting people squatting on the north someone playing the bagpipes with a small figure next to him in the face, on the south wall, a man with a purse hanging from her neck, two characters at his side he put a finger on the mouth and with the other hand seem to comb.
3. the nave and aisles originally novels have been remade several times, (the Roman vaults were quite low). Before 1838, the four bays of the west (the closest from here) had no vaults, the frame was apparently due to a collapse.
   We refit the arch by consolidating the pillars of wood (barrels pitchpine: exotic softwood tree) covered with stucco in 1839.
4. STAINED: They were produced between 1864 and 1873 (except, of course, the window of the apse central walkway that is from 1966 and are gifts from families Guîtres.
5. THREE SPANS framed by round pillars, are keystone pending the sixteenth century. The central motif of the past was broken. They are lit by arched Romanesque windows.
   THE FIRST TWO PILLARS IN NORTH ROMAND were restored in their own half in 1976 to place the organ.
6. ORGAN : we owe a priest Guîtres Haverlan Paul (1971-1984)
   That excited about the acoustic qualities of the abbey but also by his penchant for music and singing plans to build an organ worthy of the monument.
   It was inaugurated April 23, 1978.
   it was built in 1976 by the factory Beuchet Debierre Nantes.
   It includes 25 stops and 1763 pipes. .
7. the transept was probably originally a ribbed primers which remain at the top of the three pillars. On the square was erected in 1613 a Roman tower.
   In 1819, because it undermined the soundness of the building This tower was destroyed and replaced by another built at the end of the north transept arm and the arch was replaced by a cupola.
8. THE DOME was pierced a bull's eye in 1830 (dove representing the Holy Spirit)
9. CHORUS majestic roundabout, surrounded by an ambulatory barrel vault, is the most interesting part of the building.
   In 1960 the curate Henry David M Dean (man and determined scholar undertakes the realization of a project that is motivated to renovate the interior of the abbey. He succeeded magnificently
   his business four years since the choir is completely rebuilt under the leadership of the union of historical monuments.
   It has been completely redesigned between 1960 and 1965 from the original plan.
   - Reversal and consolidation of the pillars, Marquees reinvented from the board expressing his art Benedictine greater purity, rehabilitation of the three chapels of the ambulatory and ambulatory magnificent novel with lowered floor and facing the clear coating.
10. FRAMING (XV)
    From the late fifteenth century, it is exceptional.
    Comprising three parts above the nave and every aisle.
    large shell-shaped boat returned, she is chestnut and drums have unusual lengths and are pegged on the old wood from the forest of the Double made famous by the son of Charlemagne and the Jacquou Crisp. The dimensions of this framework are impressive (50m long, 14m high). It is half the height of the building. The impression is striking to find under the hull of an ancient ship of the Royal with its marbling and her keel. A pair of two were HUGE maintains perfectly straight ridge. The oldest parts date from 1130-1135
    Framing secondary choir is unfortunately in poor condition and requires a substantial refurbishment. In 1987-89 total repair of the roof and complete renovation of the structure under the authority of the Chief Architect of Historic Monuments Fund, the purchaser of the frame is a naval officer who went to La Rochelle with The same procedures ancestral renovating this unique structure that has supported since eight centuries the brunt storms brought by the westerly winds. The most important pieces of wood have 8 centuries of age.
11. the transept (NORTH) barrel vault, is to head right.
    Each arm has an apse and dead-furnace and lighted by windows Romance, the most beautiful being on the north side above the front door Romanesque north.
    It represents the Tree of Jesse, or family tree of Christ.
    In the same transept arm, pointed to the baptismal font in the form of tents and nearly the chapel, a painting: Baptism of Christ by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River, the work of master Roganeau artist Bordeaux author of the frescoes that adorn the ceiling BOAT SUSPENDED was offered ex-votos (Table object or plaque that hung in a church or holy place, following a vow
    or in memory of a great theater graduated, he was executed for the church in 1944 and Guîtres offered by a family Local.
    Just Jean is dedicated stained glass overlooking the altar dedicated to St Peter.
12. The transept
    He had originally received a ribbed primers which remains at the top of the three pillars. At this point was raised in 1613 the first Roman tower. In the nineteenth century it was replaced by the current, at the tip of the arm of the north transept, and the vault was replaced by a ribbed dome pierced with a bull's-eoil representing the Holy Spirit.