The most beautiful religious buildings Isère

In 1084, seven monks in search of a secluded place were led to a raised valley above the Guiers Mort, itself dominated by the Grand Som (2,026 m). The travellers settled in. One of the monks, Saint Bruno, created the Carthusian monastic order. The Grande Chartreuse Monastery was born and the isolated site became known as the "Chartreuse Desert". During the centuries that followed, many Carthusian monasteries were created throughout the world. The monastery cannot be visited.

The history of the abbey is closely linked to the relics of Saint Antoine the Egyptian, with miraculous virtues, reported in Dauphiné circa 1070. Indeed, these relics would have the virtue of healing one of the scourges of the Middle Ages, the "evil of the Ardents" or "the Fire of Saint Anthony" which led to dementia. So it was around these relics that Benedictine monks built a church church from the th century. But these monks will soon be replaced by république, a hospital order of medical monks, while the abbey expands in a remarkable Gothic style. Knowing its fertile period during the th and th centuries, the abbey radiates through the Christian world, while important works make it one of the most flamboyant achievements, both by its architecture and its decoration. Impressive by its dimensions, 62 metres long, 32 metres wide and 22 metres high (larger than high, the abbey was first destined to receive many pilgrims), the whole lack neither grace nor elegance with its frescoes, statues and treasures. The abbatial buildings, attached to the Gothic church, allow to discover the République lifestyle and the power of order.

The church dedicated to Saint Peter was built in 1832. The arch, all of bricks is remarkable. By its dimensions, it is thought to be an abbey church. It houses the organs built in 1874 by the famous Facteur factor in Lyon.

Built between the th and th centuries. Note, among several paintings, «the baptism of Christ», painting on canvas.

Beautiful panorama on Mont Blanc from the church. But also, many fountains (the oldest fountain in the street of Italy was already mentioned in 1349), the Halles (1504 th century), dauphinoises roofs classified in the city centre, the Maison des Dolphins, with its facade classified in Historical monuments (), the Nation house (th century) and some typical houses (th and th centuries).

A beautiful church within which you will discover, among other things, a polychrome wooden statue of Saint Christopher and another of the polychrome and gilded wood from the Virgin to the Child. The two dates of the th century.

This mountain church has a simple charm and serves as a "lighthouse" for this mountain range marked by spirituality. This 12th century church, which borders the road that climbs to the Porte pass, has been altered twice, notably in the 19th century with the help of the monks of the Grande Chartreuse. To see: a small stained glass window from the 16th century bearing the symbol of the Carthusian order, an element of a gilded wooden altar from the 17th century, a wooden Virgin from the 18th century, the stained glass windows created by the painter Arcabas.