The church in which the "Da Vinci Code" was filmed in Paris was burned – 17/03/2019

The historic church of Saint Sulpice in Paris, where the film was shot The Da Vinci code, inspired by the novel by American author Dan Brown, caught fire this Sunday for a few minutes, but the firefighters were able to catch fire quickly and no one was injured.

The fire broke out early in the afternoon, while four people were inside the church. It was then that they discovered that flames rose through the huge doors of the Roman Catholic Church that stretched out to the stained glbad windows above and at a cage. Stairs, according to a spokesman for the fire department.

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The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage to the church are not known at the moment, the spokesman said.

The church, built in the seventeenth century on foundations dating from the Middle Ages, is located in the left bank district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and houses three paintings by Eugène Delacroix, the l one of the main characters of the romantic movement in France the nineteenth century.

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The past of the church

In 1646 began the construction of the current building on the foundations of a Romanesque temple of the thirteenth century, works that were completed only a century later.

Priest Languet de Gercy commissioned an astronomer to build a gnomon on the solar meridian to calculate the date of Easter by controlling the equinoxes. This is a marble column that marks the time through the shadow that is projected on the ground.

Due to the existence of the gnomon, the church was preserved from destruction during the French Revolution and is now preserved under optimal conditions.

The church Saint Sulpice is impressive from the outside and from the access. Its enormous walls and bare stone columns give an unfinished look that can also be seen in one of its towers.

One of the main attractions of the church is the fresco of Delacroix, located to the right of the entrance, in the Chapel of Angels. You can also see a figure of St. Peter (similar to that of the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican) with the foot carried by the caresses of thousands of faithful.

Nowadays, there are still concerts with the impressive pipe organ of 1862.

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