Sundial of the Airelles

Name: Sundial of the Airelles
Address: Les Airelles1, Passage du CanalLe Rosier, Val-des-Prés, 05100, FRANCE

Historic site and monument
Historic patrimony
Sun dial
Modern
20th C

Les Airelles, 1, Passage du Canal, Le Rosier, 05100 Val-des-Prés

The sundial of the Airelles — ©Service Tourisme VDP

Cadran solaire des Airelles — ©Service Tourisme de Val-des-Prés

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The new sundial at Les Airelles serves both as a hotel sign and as a solar time display. Made by Evelyne and Norbert PEYROT, sundial makers from Névache.

The sundial's motto "Obliviscere malarum, profer optima" means "Forget the bad hours, prolong the best". It has a modern function: it serves as a sign for the hotel, while at the same time giving the local solar time. The hour table is encased in a ribboned ring, and decorated with an acanthus-leaved thistle or carline. The lower part features the fruit that gave the establishment its name: cranberries. The upper frieze features yellow cranberries with rounded blue acanthus leaves. Completed in 1997, the sundial was painted using the fresco technique of yesteryear. They also rendered the façade in a beautiful yellow ochre, and painted the door and window surrounds in trompe l'oeil, as well as the quoins, which simulate cut stone.