Sylvanès

Sylvanès is a common French of the south Aveyron in the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants are called Sylvanésiens and Sylvanésiennes.

Geography

Sylvanès is located in the south of the Département of Aveyron at 432 meters of altitude in the buttresses of the Monts of Lacaune at the edge of the brook of Prats.

History

In 1136, Pons de Léras assassin and converted robber founds the Abbaye of Sylvanès which knew a great prosperity until the 16th century.
With the Revolution, the abbey was removed.
In 1800 and until 1931? , the commune is gathered with that of Montagnol
the abbey was used as sheep-fold until in 1977 where it was restored to become a spiritual and cultural center.
In 1994, the Église of Étimasis is rebuilt on the territory of the commune.

Church of Etimasis

Located at 4,5 km of Sylvanès, this orthodoxe church Russian at summer built out of wood in October 1994 at the request of the Father Andre Gouzes.

The building was built in the Forêt of Khirov (to 700 km in the east of Moscow) during the winter 1993 - 94 then dismounted and conveyed by Train, Camion S and Tracteur S until its final place to be finally gone up according to an old Russian technique which requires neither Clou nor ankle.

the SNCF dealt with half of the transport costs between the Russia and Millau parks it.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Abbey of Sylvanès
Church of Étimasis
ferruginous Medicinal spring

See too

Abbey of Sylvanès
Common of Aveyron
Regional natural park of the Large Causses

External bonds

Sylvanès on the site of the IGN
Sylvanès on the site of INSEE
Sylvanès on the site of the quid
Common closest to Sylvanès
Localization of Sylvanès on a chart of Plane Aveyron
of Sylvanès on Mapquest

Official site of the abbey

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