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Place of worship · Grimaud

Chapelle des Pénitents

Notre-Dame du Coulet, a chapel of 1482 at the village gate, seat of the White Penitents

Chapelle des Pénitents
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Notre-Dame du Coulet, known as the Chapelle des Pénitents, marks one of the entrances to the village; its date, 1482, is carved in Roman numerals on the door lintel. It became the seat of the White Penitents, who helped the poor, and holds a seventeenth-century altarpiece with a Pietà of 1808 and the relics of Saint Theodore. It has been listed since 31 March 1976.

Chapelle des Pénitents is a place of worship on Place des Pénitents in Grimaud. The bus stop Grimaud - Village is 250 m away (about 4 min on foot).

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Place des Pénitents: the streetAll of Grimaud

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