Béhuard

Béhuard is a common insular French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire. Its inhabitants names Béhuardais and Béhuardaises.

Geography

To 15 km of Angers, between the slopes of Savennières and the Rochefort-on-Loire, Béhuard an island of the the Loire.

History

Béhuard was initially dedicated to a Gallic goddess-mother, before being evangelized at the 5th century by Sainte Maurille then offered to the 11th century with the Saint Nicolas's Day abbey of Angers.

Béhuard, which was a place of pilgrimage of the boatmen avnt the 15th century, owes its fame with the protective virgin of the marines and travellers. Since the king Louis XI, which made there build the church, the sanctuary always attracts crowd: each summer, two hundred and thousand pilgrims or tourists stop in Béhuard.

Around the rock piton draw up picturesque houses of 15th and 16th century, period when Béhuard counted 300 inhabitants. They are a hundred with living today insularity, facing the whims of the river regularly. As of spring, the visitors are numerous to come to discover the charms of this small village and its splendid panorama on the river. Béhuard is one of the major tourist sites of the Anjou: its restaurant, its pancake shop and its guinguette recently open and its fifty-eight second home of it are the proof.

In 1948, a pilgrimage joins together all there the Madones Anjou.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • Church Notre-Dame de Béhuard, built by Louis XI at the 15th century on a rock. Place of Pilgrimage to the Virgin .
  • Houses of the 15th century and 18th century.
  • Statue of the miraculous Virgin out of wooden of Plum tree of the 16th century, crowned in 1923 by Black and white XI, Ex-voto.
  • Museum: firemen of the world .
  • Site of the perched church (classified site).

Personalities related to the commune

  • Holy Maurille, evangelist of the island.
  • Louis XI made several stays there.
  • Pie XI crowned there a miraculous Virgin in 1923.

See too

  • Common of Maine-et-Loire
  • List of the common French islanders

External bonds

  • Béhuard on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Béhuard on the site of INSEE
  • Béhuard on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Béhuard on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Béhuard on Mapquest

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