Gate of Age

Gate of Age
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Description

This former farmhouse, of which only beautiful ruins—restored in 1998—remain, served as the gateway to the Chartreux estate.

This was the point of entry to the Reposoir Valley, via a vaulted passageway. The current façade likely dates from the 17th century. It strongly resembles the architecture of the Chartreuse. A farmer lived there and was responsible for collecting the toll owed to the monks. The statue of the Virgin and Child that now stands in the central niche of the Porte d’Âge is a copy of the early 16th-century statue, created by the sculptor Béatrice Sassone-Bouvet in 2002.