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Notre-Dame du Port was a Roman basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 in the Port quarter of Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune in France of France, in the Auvergne regions of France, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census....
, between place Delille and the cathedral.








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Notre-Dame du Port was a Roman basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 in the Port quarter of Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune in France of France, in the Auvergne regions of France, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census....
, between place Delille and the cathedral.

History

It was founded by the bishop Saint-Avit in the 6th century and rebuilt in the 11th and 12th centuries after being burned down by the Normans.

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Bibliography

  • Guy Collière, Art roman en Basse-Auvergne : les églises majeures : livret détaillé disponible dans certaines des cinq églises majeures d'Auvergne.
  • Bernard Craplet, Auvergne romane, Éditions Zodiaque, rééd. 1992.
  • Fornas, Le symbolisme dans l'art roman, La Taillanderie, 1997.
  • Fornas, Eglises romanes de Basse-Auvergne, id., 1994.
  • Porcher, Bestiaire roman Auvergnat, RHA, t. 41, 1968.
  • Bréhier, La sculpture romane en Haute-Auvergne, R.H.A., t. 23.
  • Mourlevat, La géométrie du Nombre d’Or à Notre-Dame du Port], Bulletin historique et scientifique de l’Auvergne, Juillet-Septembre 1978


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