Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Saint-Jean-de-Fos

The chapel "Saint-Géniès de Litenis" is located south of Saint-Jean-de-Fos. Today very isolated it was once the center of a settlement near a ford of the river Herault. In 804 the place was given by Charlemagne to his cousin Guillaume de Gellone (Saint Guilhem) . The church of today was erected within the 11th century on a spot, where a paleochristian sanctuary had been. As the settlement around the church got abandoned, the unattended church crumbled and after the French Revolution it was sold as a quarry. So half of the nave and the apse got demolished. The reconstruction started end of the 19th century. Unfortunately the chapel was locked.

The chapel "Saint-Géniès de Litenis" is located south of Saint-Jean-de-Fos. Today very isolated it was once the center of a settlement near a ford of the river Herault. In 804 the place was given by Charlemagne to his cousin Guillaume de Gellone (Saint Guilhem) . The church of today was erected within the 11th century on a spot, where a paleochristian sanctuary had been. As the settlement around the church got abandoned, the unattended church crumbled and after the French Revolution it was sold as a quarry. So half of the nave and the apse got demolished. The reconstruction started end of the 19th century. Unfortunately the chapel was locked.

The chapel "Saint-Géniès de Litenis" is located south of Saint-Jean-de-Fos. Today very isolated it was once the center of a settlement near a ford of the river Herault. In 804 the place was given by Charlemagne to his cousin Guillaume de Gellone (Saint Guilhem) . The church of today was erected within the 11th century on a spot, where a paleochristian sanctuary had been. As the settlement around the church got abandoned, the unattended church crumbled and after the French Revolution it was sold as a quarry. So half of the nave and the apse got demolished. The reconstruction started end of the 19th century. Unfortunately the chapel was locked.

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The distance between the abbey in Aniane and the abbey in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert may only be about 8kms, but you have to cross the Hérault river. So this bridge was constructed probably in the first half the 11th century, making this bridge to one of the oldest medieval bridges in France. It is an architectural masterpiece, and -not surprisingly- a legend grew, that this could only be done with the support of the devil. This bridge, that was in "full use" upto a new bridge was built in 1932, shares this legend with many other devil´s - bridges worldwide.