one place to another
City asked the banks of the Allier, are the mills that gave their name to this city, 1,000 years ago. Center of power at the time of the Bourbons, Mills has kept the role of capital. Become head of department at the Revolution, the city is now a political, administrative and agriculture, proud of its rich heritage.
A story always has
From the fourteenth century, the Dukes of Bourbon had privileged Mills location for their residence and the organs of their government. At the end of the fifteenth century, with Peter II and Anne of Beaujeu, Mills knows his heyday. The castle was enlarged. Anne added a wing in the Royal Italian style, the first Renaissance building built in France and now a museum today. A Collegiate Gothic style was built. A cosmopolitan and brilliant court met musicians, poets and painters.
At the heart of the old mills
In this long route, where the Dukes of Bourbon are present implicitly, Mills has kept this rare charm that only the patina of time and history can offer as a privilege. Traces of that past are still numerous in Moulins. From far and wide, the towers of his cathedral always seem to cross time and the sky. Nearby, as if to salute this complicity with the passing days, the automatons of Jacquemart, a symbol of communal liberties of the city, punctuate the hours, over the centuries
Cathedral, consisting of a nave and two towers, built in the nineteenth century, as an oversized casket, contains a masterpiece of rare beauty: the triptych of "Master of Moulins. This masterpiece was painted in 1500 at the request of Peter II and Anne de Beaujeu. Its author was not identified with certainty. The two donors are presented to the Virgin and Christ. The brilliance of the colors, the grace of the characters make this wood painting one of the great masterpieces of Gothic painting in France.
In 1755, a fire was due to the castle of the Bourbons. It remains today as this imposing tower with a flat roof, the now famous: "Evil wears.
Many mansions with their diamond-shaped red brick façade of black brick create a peaceful atmosphere that emphasize the broad shaded course sung by Theodore de Banville, poet moulinois.
In the Chapel of the Lycée Banville, the oldest in France, lies in his mausoleum, the Duke of Montmorency.
The Mills today
But if Mills is respectful of its traditions and proud of its past is also a modern city, led by a dynamic sports equipment collective and renovation of entire neighborhoods as "The Mariners". It was in this neighborhood camped on the banks of the Allier, which has recently opened the national center stage costume and set design.
Mills realized that between the past and the future is a precious moment: the Now.
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