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In 2018 > Francesco FINIZIO – 3 points, c’est tout
The Notre-Dame du Touriau (also known as Touriaux or Tourillot) chapel is situated at an altitude of 1190 meters on a small hill overlooking the village of Les Fourgs, offering a lovely view of the village and the surrounding countryside. It was built between 1923 and 1925 to fulfill a vow made by the villagers, who pledged to erect a chapel on this site if the village was spared from invasion by German troops during the First World War. The village was quite far from the front lines, and the risk was low, but the news that might reach them from soldiers engaged in this long conflict was undoubtedly alarming enough to justify this shared fear. The village was spared, and the chapel, officially inaugurated on September 8, 1925, was financed by donations and built by the villagers on the site of a small monument supporting a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, erected in 1898 under the auspices of Félix Balanche, the parish priest. It is a small, rectangular building constructed on a terrace reinforced by a stone retaining wall. The chapel is covered by a gabled roof topped, above the entrance, by a small bell tower housing the statue of the Virgin Mary from 1898. Four arched windows with stained glass illuminate the single nave. The only furnishings are pews, chairs, and a simple altar. It was restored in 2025.
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