Chapelle de Las Planques

About

Built on a rocky promontory and only accessible on foot, the beautiful Romanesque church of Las Planques dominates the river and the valley of Viaur, without forgetting the ruins of the village of Planques which was protected.

Built between the 11th and 12th centuries, it features 16th century frescoes.
Our Lady of Las Planques owes its name to a footbridge that crossed the Viaur River to go from Tanus to Pampelonne. The building was once the center of a village that counted about twenty houses around the fourteenth century. Hidden at the bottom of a valley and difficult to access, the church served as a refuge for the local population when approaching the truckers, gangs of looting soldiers of the Middle Ages organized in large companies. In the eighteenth century (18), the inhabitants of the Planques were attracted by the plateaus where life was now easier, economy, agriculture, travel, work, … knew the rise of all the French regions. The loss of the title of parish in 1860 to the Church of Saint-Salvy in Fournials and the relocation of all the furniture and objects of worship completed the loss of the last inhabitants. In the early 1900s, some irreducible souls remain.

To visit the interior: Take the key to the town hall of Tanus or to the Sports Café in Tanus.

Spoken languages : French

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• Maximal number of persons 30

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