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The keep of Pons is located in the commune of Pons in the French department of Charente-Maritime in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. This tower is the old keep of the castle of Pons. 33 m high, it is visible from a long distance and is the symbol of the city. With the Saint-Gilles chapel, the remains of the ramparts and the main building, it constitutes the remains of the ancient castle of Pons.

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Of the first church built in the 12th century, only the apse, the transept, the Gothic chapels and the bell tower remain, which is one of the best preserved and most elegant in Saintonge. It rises on three square floors supported by a powerful stump, and each face is decorated with a slender arcade with five arches supported by columns with capitals. The upper floor is pierced on each side by three elegant semi-circular twin bays. Of the church, entrusted to the Chaise-Dieu Abbey in 1084 by Robert de Pons, only the eastern part remains, the nave having disappeared during the Wars of Religion (16th century). Inside, note the dome divided into eight compartments as well as very beautiful capitals in the original sanctuary, decorated with acanthus leaves and palmettes. An ossuary crypt, from the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, located under the chapel, extends the northern arm of the transept. It is accessible by a small staircase. It is covered with a primitive ribbed cross. A stone bench goes around the crypt about 50 centimeters from the current floor. Open on request at the town hall.

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The Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens church: From the novel to the novel, there is only one step here and not only in the text! This church holds a special place in the Saintonge Romanesque landscape because it is built on the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa. The first bay of the choir, which carries the bell tower, reuses part of the walls of this villa and we can still observe fragments of a hypocaust, composed of an octagonal-shaped swimming pool. The church contains the oldest elements still visible in the religious buildings of Saintonge with masonry made of small regular rubble stones. Its classic plan has a two-bay nave and a pointed cradle vaulted transept. The choir bay is covered with a dome called “barlongue sur trompes”. The apse is decorated with an arcade which has beautiful sculpted capitals: a scene of the Holy Women at the Tomb; remains of archaic Romanesque sculpture which reveal lion tamers, a bow and falcon hunting scene. The front choir is a very old part of the building, dating from the 10th or 11th century, where magnificent Carolingian capitals decorated with fine arabesques remain. The church has two facades to the West and the South. Note the very curious series of modillions on the western facade, cubic in design.

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For people with a head for heights, it is worth climbing the 30-metre-high tower. There is also a museum in the building. It is one of the 'Monument historique' in France.

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This sanctuary undoubtedly had to suffer depredations during the various conflicts that bloodied Saintonge, as evidenced by the various reconstruction campaigns, which make the building a synthesis of Saintonge Romanesque and late Gothic styles. The watchtower and machicolations of the southern transept bear witness to the wars of religion, which were particularly violent in the region. A crypt built on an old underground refuge, perhaps of Celtic origin, was rediscovered in 1976. The complex architecture of the Saint-Martin church bears witness to numerous alterations over the centuries. The oldest parts of this former Casadean possession seem to date back to the 12th century, a period which saw the flowering of many Romanesque churches in the Saintonge countryside. The facade, high and slender, consists of two horizontal registers and is crowned with a sharp gable, which adds to its monumentality. The lower part consists of a single arched portal, with four bare arches (the keystones having been redone in 1895) supported by small columns with capitals decorated with interlacing, sculpted faces and birds drinking from the same chalice. , or on the contrary turning away from each other. The upper part is made up of a central bay with three arches, framed by two blind arcades, separated by a series of finely worked small columns mounted on a cornice and a fluted base and ending in candles. The transition between this floor and the gable is formed by a series of modillions representing animals whose names the sculptor transcribed into Latin on the edge of the tablets (Leopardus, Colube) as well as a curious character sticking out his tongue, illustration of the character willingly facetious of the "ymagiers" of the Middle Ages. The nave is made up of four bays, covered with a basket-handle vault. A series of columns with capitals devoid of any ornamentation once carried the beams supporting the primitive barrel vault, which has now disappeared. Ample broken barrel arcades punctuate its side elevations. Transept and choir have been considerably redesigned. If the structure of the transept and the primitive pre-choir are found again, with their Romanesque capitals and their barrel vaults, the whole has been "enveloped" by Gothic additions, forcing the masonry of this part of the building to be redone. church. In fact, the square of the transept has the particularity of being surrounded by dissimilar pillars, carrying roughly assembled arches. These transformations date from 1488, the year in which a report mentions the construction of "d'ung arseau soulz the tower of the bell tower of the said place". The vast Gothic sanctuary “doubles” the Romanesque parts. It is made up of a choir and two side chapels, all covered with ribbed vaults, which fall on culs-de-lampe representing enigmatic birds and human heads. Large ogival bays, where trilobes and quatrefoils mingle, flood this part of the building with light. A gilded wooden altarpiece, surrounded by two Louis XV style credenzas, take place in the choir and the adjacent chapels. The central motif is "The Lamb of the Apocalypse" caught in a radiant background. This set, restored by the Beaux-Arts in 1975, was designed for the Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes. The dome of the medieval extension of the crypt. The entrance to the crypt is at the foot of the high altar. The latter was rediscovered in 1976 by the priest at the time, D.Héraud. Entirely carved into the rock, it seems to have been built in the 5th century, perhaps on an underground refuge of Celtic origin. Enlarged in the 12th century, it served for a long time as an ossuary. Outside, the square bell tower rises at the crossroads of the transept, where a dome on pendentives has been fitted. Built in the 14th century, it is flanked by a "pine cone" staircase turret. Traces of fortifications (watchtower and battlements), but also of fire, testify to the fights of the wars of religion in the 16th century. Church open daily.

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You can commit the tower for free if you spend the night in the pilgrim's hostel. The accommodation costs € 8.69 and is well maintained.

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The church has a special feature a letter issued by John XXIII. This honors Pons and his veneration of Mary. Only a few churches in France, but several of them in the Saintonge, are dedicated to St. Bibianus (also Vivianus or Vivien) consecrated, a supposed bishop of Saintes from the Visigothic-Franconian period (5th century), about the otherwise almost nothing is known. A (fictitious) representation of the bishop can be found on the northern side of the 19th century stained glass windows in the gothic west window.

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