Pharmacy frescoes
Getting lost in Sion's labyrinthine old town I saw a strange sign, Uffem Bort, 16th-century frescoes. The door was ajar so in I went, to discover a narrow room decorated with biblical scenes. Back home I did some research to find that it was a pharmacy belonging to a Jean Uffem Bort, and that the frescoes had been covered over with plaster for 400 years. The date 1547 is above the door. Click on the link for a 1975 bulletin with ground plan and photos before restoration.
Details below.
Pharmacy frescoes
Getting lost in Sion's labyrinthine old town I saw a strange sign, Uffem Bort, 16th-century frescoes. The door was ajar so in I went, to discover a narrow room decorated with biblical scenes. Back home I did some research to find that it was a pharmacy belonging to a Jean Uffem Bort, and that the frescoes had been covered over with plaster for 400 years. The date 1547 is above the door. Click on the link for a 1975 bulletin with ground plan and photos before restoration.
Details below.