Here's an event that's sure to attract enthusiasts and the curious alike. It's the Journées du Patrimoine, a European cultural event that takes place every year in September, usually on the third weekend of the month. To make the most of the 41st edition, we've already set the dates for September 21 and 22, 2024: on this occasion, many monuments, museums, churches, castles and other places usually closed to the public will open their doors to you for a great program of free visits and original events.
Paris and the whole of the Île-de-France region are on board for this year's event! Yes, it's not just in the capital that we can enjoy the Journées du Patrimoine: the Paris region is full of heritage treasures that are still too little known. If you're in the Hauts-de-Seine region and would like to explore the heritage of the 92 region, why not stop off in the town of Châtillon? Châtillon has a wide range of activities on offer for the Journées du Patrimoine! Discover the detailed program below:
Heritage Days 2024 at Notre-Dame-du-Calvaire church in Châtillon
Guided tour on the theme of "Notre-Dame-du-Calvaire church between tradition and modernity".
Jean-Pierre Laurens and Péguy visit the Church of Notre-Dame du Calvaire on the theme of friendship
Free tour of Notre-Dame-du-Calvaire church
Family tour of Notre-Dame du Calvaire church
Night-time tour of Notre-Dame-du-Calvaire church
Screening of the film "Marie t'invite" to visit Notre-Dame-du-Calvaire church
Free visit of the Saint-Philippe-Saint-Jacques church
Lecture:
The history of the Tour Biret, plateau parties circa 1930
BY MONIQUE BARRIER AND FRANCIANE LABBEZ
LA FOLIE DESMARES, ITS GARDENS AND ITS SECRET HISTORY.
Guided tour with commentary by Les amis du vieux Châtillon.
Discover the Maison du Patrimoine. A Châtillon beehive. From the Belle Epoque in 1875 to modern art today... follow the guide!
By the Association des Amis du Vieux Châtillon
Save our historical heritage. The public is invited to take a look at the last "Folie" in the Paris region dating from the "Grand Siècle". The scratches of Saint-Simon and the truculent stories of the Palatine will take us back to the customs and secrets of the Grand Siècle.
Roads, networks and connections
The evolution of transport in Châtillon "from the Imperial to the Tramway"
In Châtillon around 1892, passengers used the horse-drawn tramway, then known as the "American railway". Discover in text and photos its evolution up to the construction of line 15.
The incredible story of the Tour Biret and its icehouse, with a look back at the famous fêtes on the Plateau de Châtillon around 1930 and the big-phone players on the Butte Montmartre.
Aucun événement annoncé à ce jour, le programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.
Heritage Days at the Maison des Arts de Châtillon
Come and discover the central role played by the Maison des Arts in past centuries, and the emblematic figures of our heritage: the painter Suzanne Frémont and her niece Hélène Frémont.
A short visit to Aline Zalko's "Mirages" exhibition will round off the tour.
Heritage Days at the Maison des Enfants in Châtillon
"Compositrices en tête"
In partnership with the association HF Ile de France
A series of portraits of French women composers from the 17th to the 19th century, to give these women the place they deserve in the history of music. All recognized by their peers in their own time, they have been erased from the repertoire, to the extent that even today it is possible to complete an entire artistic curriculum without ever having heard of them.
"Une Histoire de rues au féminin"
In partnership with the Archives de la Ville
The naming of streets and public spaces is an opportunity to pay tribute to famous people, particularly women. These women can be pioneers in their field, activists for women's rights or simply representative figures of their era. Come and celebrate our heritage and discover the stories of these women, who can be found on every street corner in Châtillon!
From September 7 to 27, during Maison des Enfants opening hours.
"Castelet is not dead" - Cie Arnica (50 min)
Puppet theater / Created - Written by Gwendoline Soublin, Directed by Emilie Flacher
The Arnica company opens its castelet for the public space with its pack of girdle puppets, for a playful, whimsical family show with different levels of interpretation, which questions our mutating world. What kind of humans are we becoming, and above all, what kind of humans do we want to become?
"Compositrices en tête"
In partnership with the association HF Ile de France
A series of portraits of French women composers from the 17th to the 19th century, to give these women the place they deserve in the history of music. All recognized by their peers in their own time, they have been erased from the repertoire, to the extent that even today it is possible to complete an entire artistic curriculum without ever having heard of them.
A series of portraits of French women composers from the 17th to the 19th century, to restore these women to their rightful place in music history. All recognized by their peers in their own time, they have been erased from the repertoire, to the extent that today it is still possible to complete an entire artistic curriculum without ever having heard of them.
By students from the Maison des enfants and IMEP (International Music Educators of Paris)
A concert focusing on women composers of music in the plural, as several musical styles will be interpreted and represented across the ages: romantic music first and foremost, but also jazz, funk and contemporary music.
By students from the Conservatoire and Maison des Enfants
A concert focusing on women composers of music in the plural, as several musical styles will be interpreted and represented across the ages: Romantic music first and foremost, but also jazz, funk and contemporary music.
Heritage Days at the Max Pol Fouchet multimedia library in Châtillon
Aucun événement annoncé à ce jour, le programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.
Heritage Days at Châtillon's Parc André Malraux
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Heritage Days at the SNCF Atlantic Technicentre in Châtillon
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Heritage Days, Gambetta school courtyard, Châtillon
"Trois contes et quelques" - Groupe Merci (1h)
By commissioning author Emmanuel Adély to rewrite tales by Charles Perrault, the Groupe Merci plays with our childhood memories, summoning these illustrious old tales to the stage, where betrayals, dangerous temptations, abandonments, murders, absent fathers and jealous mothers mingle. And let's not forget the humor, mischief and energy distilled by these formidable clown-storytellers in this vast playground.
From age 12 - École Gambetta, 19 rue Gambetta
"Phaenomena" - Cie Furinkai (35 mn)
Dance / creation - Choreographer Satchie Noro
Led by performer Satchie Noro, the two women in Phaenomena explore the power of interaction between textiles, fibers, threads and body movement in a variety of forms. From these polymorphous fabrics, sometimes crumpled or wrapped, sometimes scratched or wound, they weave an architecture of metamorphoses with their bodies, entangled from top to bottom, from bottom to top. All the more reason to dance, the more they reveal themselves, lose themselves, forget themselves, and come back before our astonished eyes.
"Connivences" - Cie Furinkai (25 mn)
Dance - Directed by Satchie Noro
An unprecedented encounter between a circus artist and a sportswoman in an 8-meter circle, in search of physical connivances, emotional challenges and acrobatic interference. Because in sport, as in art, there are visible and invisible gestures, words, signs and routines between two people.
Heritage Days at Square Jean Moulin in Châtillon
Aucun événement annoncé à ce jour, le programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.
Heritage Days at the Théâtre de Châtillon
"Nos lieues" - Cie Jeanne Simone (45 min)
Creation in situ - Choreography and direction Laure Terrier
Nos lieues is the desire to create a piece dedicated to a space with which we have a reciprocal relationship of transformation, whether we live in it or walk through it on a daily basis. Based on writing and in situ work sessions, as well as interviews, the company invites us to feel it, to meet it - through dance, voice, words and sound - just as we meet a person: we approach it with tact, letting it come to us in a reciprocal movement.
Rendez-vous at Théâtre de Châtillon, 3 rue Sadi Carnot.
Heritage Days at the Auboin quarry winch in Châtillon
Châtillonnais and Ile-de-France residents will be able to see the winch in action, powered by a horse.
This visit is made possible thanks to the passion of volunteers from the PICAR association. They enthusiastically recount anecdotes from the past, graffiti discovered underground, the work of quarrymen and, in the background, the story of the only witness to the time when stones from Châtillon's subsoil were used to rebuild the Capital. Visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in local history.
Limestone and gypsum were the two materials extracted from the town's soil as early as 1762. From 1770 until the Revolution, the "Entrepreneurs de la Madeleine", who built the Madeleine church, opened more than thirty extraction shafts in Châtillon.
Le Treuil dates from the 1850s/1870s, the era of the great Haussmann works, and gives access 35 metres below to a two-storey limestone quarry.
The only industrial remnant of 19th-century limestone quarrying in the Ile-de-France region, this monumental winch was used to haul up blocks of stone weighing between 4 and 8 tonnes from the two-storey underground quarry 35 m below ground. The winch consists of two large stone piers on which a cable drum rests. The drum is driven by gears connected to a carousel on which a horse moves to pull up the blocks. It ceased operating in the early 20th century and has been restored by the PICAR association, a member of Union Rempart.
Self-guided and guided tours of the site at 10:30 - 11:00 - 11:30 a.m., 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00 and 5:30 p.m., with history of building stone quarrying, extraction methods, demonstration of the tools used and how the horse-operated winch works, history of the monument's restoration.
Geology workshop with presentation of materials extracted from quarries in the Paris Basin: chalk, limestone, gypsum... Mornings 11:00 am and afternoons 3:00 pm and 4:30 pm (duration 30 minutes).
Ongoing: introductory stone-cutting workshop & specialized bookshop on the underground world and quarries.
Demonstration, with the help of a horse, of the winch and its carousel for lifting blocks.
Châtillonnais and Ile-de-France residents will be able to see the winch in action, powered by a horse.
This visit is made possible thanks to the passion of volunteers from the PICAR association. They enthusiastically recount anecdotes from the past, graffiti discovered underground, the work of quarrymen and, in the background, the story of the only witness to the time when stones from Châtillon's subsoil were used to rebuild the Capital. Visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in local history.
Limestone and gypsum were the two materials extracted from the town's soil as early as 1762. From 1770 until the Revolution, the "Entrepreneurs de la Madeleine", who built the Madeleine church, opened more than thirty extraction shafts in Châtillon.
Le Treuil dates from the 1850s/1870s, the era of the great Haussmann works, and gives access 35 metres below to a two-storey limestone quarry.
Heritage Days 2024 at the Léon Gambetta school in Châtillon
Aucun événement annoncé à ce jour, le programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.
Dates and Opening Time
From September 16, 2023 to September 17, 2023
Location
Châtillon
châtillon
92320 Chatillon
