Gatehouse of the Monastery of the Minims

At 38 rue Pierreuse, a passage in a house leads to the path up to the Terraces. The entrance is decorated with a work of art by Roland Breucker that evokes vegetables. At the top of the three first flights of steps, a semi-dome dug into the wall marks the start of the path that accesses the Monastery of the Minims. Called a porterie (gatehouse), this site was probably a chapel. Over the top you can see the inscription Charitas, a reminder of the Minims’ motto. The renovation works that recreated the access to the monastery, in particular through the house, were done in the early 2000s with European subsidies (European Regional Development Fund).