The most beautiful religious buildings Haute-Marne

The architecture of the th century of this magnificent church is massive and ouvragée. Inspired by a Renaissance portal added to the south side of the building, it also contains important furnishings and treasures. It was about 1560 that was commissioned by Antoinette de Bourbon the authentic and magnificent "Mise". Amazing are the figures that make it up: the faces are very expressive and the movements are perfectly made thanks to the thin lines that cut the characters and the precision of the folds of their clothes. A wonder! Notre-Dame Church also contains a key piece: the famous relic of the "Saint Joseph Belt", made up of hemp and a faded ivory latch, which was reported from Holy Earth in 1552 by Jean de Modèle. What to say about the organ created by Louis Le Bé in his original place… Finally, it is the construction of the current tower tower at the beginning of the th century which allows, because of its height, to be visible from a distance in the valley.

To the left of Diderot Street, descending from north to south, an imposing building (twelfth century), with its five vaulted nefs. The present church is the result of several constructions of xiiie in the eighteenth. A fire in 1725 gave the langrois architect Claude Forgeot the opportunity to treat this pretty facade. Original, the bell tower, which is a bonded and graceful bell, does not seem to obey this symmetrical law that Forgeot had. It is developed on four levels, the Campanile is very open. This abundance of decoration details contrasts with the sobriety of the building, but adds a delicious Italian character.

On the Montot coast, 2.5 km from the village was erected in 1857 Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette… This beautiful chapel, naive, simple, was built in the thanks of a miracle that cured Catherine Faivre in 1849 with a paralysis that she suffered for almost 20 years. After being bathed in the Salette waters, she recovered her legs. In addition, the village suffered in 1854 a cholera epidemic (which decimated the region of Chaumont and Langres) and the priest of Villars, Father Carticket, promised the Holy Virgin to dedicate a chapel if the village was spared. There were only a few victims. The village, persuaded to be under the sacred protection of the Virgin, then built its chapel. To see for the frame, the legend and the simple emotion released by the place or for the pilgrimage that is organized there.