La croix hosannière de Valdivienne est une croix de cimetière située à Valdivienne, en France.
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Valdivienne is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
Its name is a contraction of "Vallée de la Dive et de la Vienne".
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Pouillé is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
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Tercé is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
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The Civaux Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Civaux at the edge of Vienne River between Confolens and Chauvigny, and 44 km south-east of Poitiers.
It has two operating units that were the precursors to the European Pressurized Reactor, being the "N4 stage". Designed for a net power output of 1450 MWe per unit, power was uprated to 1500 MWe in 2010. The Civaux plant uses ambient air and water from the Vienne River for cooling.
As of 2022, 1300 people work at the plant.
The cooling towers of Civaux Nuclear Power Plant are 178 metres in height, which are the highest among those of EDF's nuclear power plants.
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Chauvigny is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
Chauvigny is located 20 miles east of Poitiers by rail. The town is situated overlooking the river Vienne and a small brook. Chauvigny is twinned with Billericay in Essex, England.
The composer Fernand Lamy was born in Chauvigny.
Chauvigny was among the places visited by Roger Fry the British artist, art critic and member of the Bloomsbury group in October 1911 when, after his visit to Paris to see the Salon d’Automne, he joined Clive Bell and Duncan Grant on a bicycle tour of the region to explore Romanesque churches. Fry produced a charming painting of Chauvigny
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Localisation
La croix hosannière est située dans le département français de la Vienne, sur la commune de Valdivienne, dans le cimetière. La croix hosannière tire son nom de l’hébreu "hosanna" qui est le premier mot d'une hymne chantée le jour des Rameaux. Il était de tradition, pour les villageois, de se rendre en procession jusqu'au cimetière ce jour-là. Les villageois se réunissaient au pied de ce calvaire pour chanter l'Hosanna.
Historique
La croix est inscrite au titre des monuments historiques le 8 octobre 1986.
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Portail des monuments historiques français Portail de la Vienne
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