This year's Journées du Patrimoine will be held on the weekend of September 21 and 22, 2024. This not-to-be-missed back-to-school event invites you to explore Europe's heritage through a fabulous program of visits and events, often free of charge, at monuments, museums, churches, castles and other sites usually closed to the public. It's a chance to rediscover our heritage in a whole new way, through a program that's sometimes never been seen before! Something for art and history enthusiasts and curious explorers alike.
Paris and the whole of the Île-de-France region have no intention of letting the opportunity to unveil their finest treasures slip by! In all four corners of the region, numerous towns and cities are getting in on the act, offering us ever more exciting experiences. This is your chance to conquer a heritage that's sometimes still too little known! If you don't have a car and want to explore the Hauts-de-Seine further, you'll find the town of Bagneux among the spots within navigo's reach. Located on the outskirts of Paris, this commune in the 92 département has a rich program for the 2023 Heritage Days, which you can discover below!
Heritage Days 2024 in Bagneux (92): a unique adventure with Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde (The World's Smallest Circus)
The Journées du Patrimoine are back for their 41st edition! We look forward to seeing you all over France on September 21 and 22, 2024, with a special program by Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine (92). [Read more]
Heritage Days at the Maison d'Richelieu - now the Maison de la Musique et de la Danse in Bagneux
Creative writing workshop
Join us for the À Mots croisés writing workshop! In the inspiring setting of the Maison de la Musique et de la Danse, we'll help you find your own writing path after exploring the new artistic creation space, following the building's historical traces with a guide, and listening to musical performances by the baroque choir À Tire d'Elles.
From 5.30pm onwards, you'll be able to open up your imaginations, become a story builder, take us on a word waltz or sing your own score!
The painted beams of the Maison d'Richelieu came to light during a survey carried out in the spring of 2004, prior to the conversion of the building into the Maison de la Musique et de la Danse. Beneath the plaster, a French-style ceiling dating back to the first decades of the 17th century, when the house was built, was discovered. This exceptional discovery in the Paris area led to the classification of not only the joists, but also the roof and facades. The house, dubbed the "Maison des oubliettes" in 18th-century chronicles, is said to have been built with money from Cardinal de Richelieu, who used it for "dirty work"...
Guided tour of the streets of Bagneux, starting at 4 rue Etienne-Dolet, visiting memorial sites linked to the Second World War and the city's Liberation. An exhibition on this theme can be viewed at the Archives communales.
This tour will be offered again during commemorations of the end of the war, in 2025.
Heritage Days at the former Bagneux town hall
An immersive show about the town, its history and its heritage. From stone to building, from yesterday to today.
The Compagnie Galante takes over the former Bagneux Town Hall building, a place steeped in history, to reveal the town's past and present. A visit/show performed by young people from Bagneux and the company's artists.
Heritage Days at cité Jacques Descamps Centre d'Accueil médicalisé
In the Middle Ages, Bagneux was a small village built around its church. Today, it's the town center. There are many traces of its past.
The tour starts at 6 rue Pablo-Neruda, passes through the town hall to take in a theatrical tour by the Compagnie Galante, and ends in front of Saint-Hermeland church, a masterpiece of early Gothic art in the Île-de-France region.
Henri Wallon Gymnasium Heritage Days
The Henri-Wallon gymnasium, built between 1969 and 1970 by André Wogenscky, Louis Miquel, Georges Maurios and Félix Madeline, has just been awarded the "Architecture contemporaine remarquable" label. The Heritage Days will provide an opportunity to discover the archictural interest of this well-known sports facility.
The tour will be followed by a visit to Sainte-Monique church, whose construction at the same time contributed to the development of the district.
Heritage Days at Saint-Hermeland church in Bagneux
La Sainte Famille (The Holy Family), an anonymous work by a French painter from the 1st quarter of the 18th century, is a listed painting in the Saint-Hermeland church. It was restored in 2023, inspiring a group of Balneolais artists from the associations Art Mature, Bagn'Art and Le Rendez-vous des photographes.
Each artist has seized upon this iconography to create his or her own work, a free and singular interpretation based on the theme of the Holy Family.
This new opus from German cellist Anja Lechner and French pianist François Couturier broadens the range of styles and references in their music. The duo "sings" with a voice all their own, mixing original compositions and free improvisations, drawing inspiration from a Bach Cantata, an Argentinian folk song or alluding more or less directly to selected works by Giya Kancheli or Anouar Brahem. And always creating new, personal music in the moment.
"Pure, majestic, almost supernatural music" (Jazz magazine)
Saint-Hermeland church, of great architectural quality, was one of the first buildings in France to be classified as a historic monument, in 1862. Its sculpted decorations are among the richest and most varied in the Paris suburbs. It was built between 1160 and 1230, at a time of great revival in religious architecture, since the Gothic style, said to have been invented in the abbey church of Saint-Denis in 1140, would, thanks to technical advances (cross vaulting, buttresses), allow walls to be pierced and light to enter churches, thus supplanting Romanesque architecture in the Île-de-France region and then throughout the country.
Although smaller in scale, it has been compared to Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, to which the parish of Bagneux belonged. The two cathedrals are roughly contemporary and geographically close, with stylistic similarities that suggest Notre-Dame's craftsmen worked in Bagneux. The church contains tombstones dating from the 13th to 16th centuries, and a 17th-century organ loft.
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21, 2024 to September 22, 2024
Location
Bagneux
92220 Bagneux
92220 Bagneux
Official website
bagneux92.fr
