You only have a few days left.
Precisely, four to visit the Saint-Michel arrow in Bordeaux.
From Monday, November 1, the iconic 114-meter-high building will be closed to the public until… 2026!
It will be closed for almost five years due to renovations.
A gigantic construction site around the third highest bell tower in France (behind Rouen and Strasbourg).
The Saint-Michel spire (and its 235 steps), destroyed and rebuilt several times, is fragile today.
Fault in consolidation work poorly carried out in the 1960s. After an extensive heritage diagnosis and monitoring for several years, the sentence had fallen: the structure of the monument must be repaired, in particular the upper part.
Several years of work
“The first phase will last nine months, it will just be the installation of the scaffolding!
600 tonnes of material to be put in place, ”Stéphane Gomot, deputy to the town hall in charge of heritage, museums and memory, explains to France 3.
Halloween in Bordeaux: The mystery of the mummies of the Saint-Michel tower https://t.co/C1I70qK4gF via @ 20minutesBord pic.twitter.com/A8uHpKABaQ
- 20minutesbordeaux (@ 20minutesbord) October 30, 2020
It will therefore be necessary to do without this ideal spot to admire the city in the coming years.
As a reminder, the spire is of course inseparable from the Saint-Michel basilica, built between the 14th and 15th centuries, a few meters away.
It was classified as a historical monument in 1846 before being inscribed in 1998 on the Unesco World Heritage List as part of the roads to Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle.
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