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Boscodon Abbey : with a thousand-year history, remarkable architecture, an exceptional forest and a museum for all

Abbaye de Boscodon
‘‘ STUNNING: Are you a lover of the architecture of churches and cathedrals? How did the craftsmen work? What were their tools? How did they use the Golden Ratio? The abbey of Boscodon is home to all this treasure ... and much more. For both the lay person or the initiated, this visit will be enriching for the body, soul and spirit.
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This breath-taking abbey, in its rocky and luscious setting, almost looks like a moored nave.

Abbaye de Boscodon

With a whispered invitation, the tour immerses the visitor in the medieval mentality.
A spiritual universe between the visible, the veiled and the invisible?
Between architectural and musical aesthetics?
A quest for meaning between faith and reason?

The threshold, an invitation to step inside

 

Abbaye de Boscodon

The guide pauses in front of the door. This signifies the passage between the secular and the sacred, before continuing to walk slowly towards the sanctuary.
The visitor’s gaze follows the bare walls before coming to a stop on the cross-less Christ of the radiating chapel, revealing even more of the building’s stark nature.

‘‘ When we entered the building, we were struck – I would even say "bewitched" – by the volume, the space, these bare walls and the light from the seven openings which diffuse a halo of light, perfect for meditation.
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The immensity of the space, the silence and the depth

Abbaye de Boscodon

Visitors seem to ask themselves: is that the whisper of breathing stone I hear? Do they allow themselves to be inhabited by the silence or carried by the echoing of the monks’ songs?
Within this enveloping space, the light is revealed, prolonged by the shadow: against any duality, unity and harmony appear omnipresent.

‘‘ The importance of symbols can also be found in the design of buildings: the repetition of elements according to key figures (seven vaults, for the seven days of the week) and proportions in harmony with the golden ratio.
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Starkness and nudity

Abbaye de Boscodon -Serre-Ponçon

Nothing … no stained glass, no sculptures, no frescoes. Without representative images, the guide opens a few doors onto intermingling universes: geometric shapes, numbers, Romanesque architecture and Cistercian art. He suggests a symbolism in which the listener and viewer are freed from their representations.

© : Nathalie Gouet, Jean Mansir, Alain Bellet

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