Comment a été construit le pont d'Avignon ?

Comment a été construit le pont d'Avignon ?

La construction du pont d'Avignon Il est vraisemblable que le pont fut un mélange de parties maçonnées et de parties en bois. Sa construction débuta en 1177 et se serait achevée en 1185 (selon la légende) ou 1293 (selon les historiens). ... Les ouvriers ( une centaine) construisaient un à deux piliers du pont par an.

Pourquoi on danse en rond sur le Pont d'Avignon ?

Dans la version originale, ce n'est pas « sur le pont » mais « sous le pont » qu'on dansait ! En raison de l'étroitesse du pont Saint-Bénézet qui ne permettait pas aux avignonnais de danser la farandole et la sarabande. En 1939, Jean sablon la chante, dans sa version originale, de façon « swing ».

Qui est Jean de Tensanges ?

Don Jean de Tensanges, prieur de Saint-Saturnin-du-Port et seigneur de la ville, pose la première pierre du pont sur la rive gauche du fleuve. Ce sont les frères pontifes qui s'occupent de la réalisation. ... On les appela vite « faiseurs de ponts » ou « pontifes » !

Who is Saint Bénézet?

• The shepherd boy is now known as Saint Bénézet and many Christian pilgrims visit the bridge that he built. Bénézet died young from exhaustion, at the age of around eighteen years. He did not live long enough to see the finished bridge which was completed a year or so after his death.

What happened to Benezet's body?

• Benezet himself died in 1184, just 21 years old, two years before his bridge was completed. He was interred in the bridge in a tiny chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of mariners. His body remained there until a flood in 1669 washed out a portion of the bridge and his coffin along with it.

What happened to Saint Bernard of bézet?

• After his death, Bénézet was interred on the bridge itself, in a small chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of mariners, standing on one of the bridge's surviving piers on the Avignon side. His relics were enshrined there until 1669, when a flood washed away part of the bridge.

What is St Benedict the patron saint of?

• St. Bénézet, Latin Benedictus, (born c. 1165—died c. 1184, Avignon, France; feast day April 14), builder who instigated and directed the building of the Pont d’Avignon, also known as the Pont Saint-Bénézet, over the Rhône River at Avignon, France. He is the patron saint of bridge builders.