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>> The MTB passportes du soleil
>> The Perrières cheese dairy
14th International Mechanical Music Festival
16-17-18 JULY 2010 . The theme will be "the Mechanical Music and Savoie"
>> Programme
Automaton exhibition
Tél. + 33 (0)4 50 79 85 75
Fax +33 (0)4 50 79 85 67
In the new exhibition gallery of the museum.Open from 10.30 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2.30 p.m to 7 p.m daily.Wonderful collection of automatons by Roger and Gallet.Forty-odd moving scenes have taken new life in a new space.
Adults ............................................................€3,50
-16 years .............................................................€2
Special rates for Groups.
Caroline's Farm
Discover the farm (free of charge) : alpine goats and Herens' cows, the milking time.
Our products are on sale at the farm.
The farm welcomes you every day from 16h to 19h30.
2111 Route des Chavannes-Les Folliets
Tel : = 33(0) 4.50.75.88.48
web site : http://lafermedecaroline.wifeo.com
La Sarre farm and Pottery
Tél. +33 (0)4 50 79 71 62
or +33 (0)6 26 92 60 62 (Nathalie)
Visit the goat farm every Thursday at 6 p.m. Maximum 20 people. Please book in advance.
Price : 5 €
New activity :
Poterie Element-terre
Tel : +33 (0)4 50 79 71 62
ou +33 (0)6 26 92 60 62 (Nathalie)
At the workshop, you’ll fi nd a wide variety of decorative and useful creations made on-site by Anouk the potter. Shapping and glazing demonstration every Wednesday at 5.30 pm (10 people max.)
Free of charge. Booking advised.
The workshop is open all year round. 9 am to 12 noon and 4 to 7 pm.
Closed Sundays and Mondays.
Heritage visits
Every Wednesday at 10.30 a.m. in July and August
- The visit lasts an hour. Themes include: traditional village life, and history.
This visit is free and the meeting point is at the Maison des Gets.
On request school visits (which last 2 hours) can be organized (for more information ask for Françoise at the Maison de la Presse.)
Market
Market in Les Gets, on Thursday morning.
Mechanical Music Museum
Tél. +33 (0)4 50 79 85 75
Fax +33 (0)4 50 79 85 67
www.musicmecalesgets.com
Open daily from 10.15 a.m. to 12.15 noon (in July and August) and from 2.15 to 7.15 p.m., Last guided visit at 6 p.m.
• Carillon bells, pendulums and music-boxes
• Animated scenes and automatons
• Street-organs (dance and fair-ground types)
• Orchestra scores and violins
• Mechanical and wind pianolas
• Phonographs and gramophones...
All displayed in their historical context in the museum’s various halls. Group visits by appointment, possibility of morning visits.
Adults : 7 €
-16 years : 4 €
Orgue
Tél. +33 (0)4 50 79 85 75
This unique mechanical musical instruments in Europe (classified historic monument) which was installed in the church during the summer of 1994.
The automatic philharmonic organ with 1000 pipes (violins, flutes, human voice, clarinets, trumpet…) and a carillon and metalophone took four years to restore. Come and appreciate its sonority during the Tuesday Organ evenings, on this season’s agenda, on tuesday at 9 pm.
The MTB passportes du Soleil :26 th-27th June 2010
• MOUNTAIN BIKING PASS’PORTES DU SOLEIL 2010
26-27 June 2010
Over 3000 mountain bikers are meeting on the weekend of 26-29 June 2010 to celebrate the start of the season in the Portes du Soleil area.The mountain biking Pass’Portes du Soleil is an outing through the mountains between 1000 and 2250 metres high to explore the fabulous mountain bikingarea of Portes du Soleil.
Make your way quickly to www.passportesdusoleil.com
The Perrières cheese dairy
Tél. +33 (0)4 50 79 70 04
The «Fruitière» is the place where milk is turned into cheese, where the fruit of the milk is collected, hence the word «fruitière». Every day, the «fruitier» makes Reblochon, Tomme and Abondance cheese…. Every Wednesday at 9 a.m. there is a free visit commentated by the cheese maker. In August, visit also on Thursday at 9 am.
© Les Gets 2010