Saint-Paul-Lès-Dax Church was built at
the end of a natural shelf, in the very place where the aqueduct bringing cold water to the city of Aquae Tarbellicae (Dax) used to start flowing. Unfortunately, we haven’t got any historic information about the...
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Saint-Paul-Lès-Dax Church was built at
the end of a natural shelf, in the very place where the aqueduct bringing cold water to the city of Aquae Tarbellicae (Dax) used to start flowing. Unfortunately, we haven’t got any historic information about the origins or the past of the building itself, but we assume that such an imposing church had been erected there as far back as in the XIth century. It was replaced in the XII th century and nowadays there only remains the richly ornamented pase as the unique testimony of the whole building. More precisely, the aisle dates back from the mid XIX th, when it replaced the old nave which had become too small and too derelict.
INSIDE THE APSE
A recent restoration got rid of the plastering and whitewash which had covered it since the destruction of
the XIVth and XVth c.paintings that could be seen until around 1920. The lower part of the apse is decorated with 11 niches dug in the stonework and displayed above a protruding basement.
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