Basilica of Our Lady of La Salette: Distant view

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posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie

La Salette is a small mountaintop village near Grenoble, France. It is most noted for an apparition of the Virgin Mary that was reported in 1846 by two shepherd children, M\u00E9lanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud. The shrine of La Salette is located in a high alpine pasture at an altitude of about 6,000 feet, about 9 miles from the nearest town. The Basilica of Our Lady of La Salette was begun in 1852, completed in 1865, and designated a basilica in 1879. It is a large, rather austere church, with a fa\u00E7ade flanked by two strong towers. It is Romanesque Revival and in the interior has some Byzantine Revival elements.

History

Alt Title

Sanctuaire Notre-Dame de La Salette

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-06-30

Spatial Coverage

Salette-Fallavaux +44.858333+5.978611 Salette-Fallavaux la, Rhône-Alpes, France

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Romanesque Revival', 'Nineteenth century']

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Basilicas Architecture

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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