The most beautiful religious buildings France

Built in the th century, in the Gothic style, on the edge of the old route of communication Merdrignac-Moncontour, Saint Lambert Chapel welcomes a large number of pilgrims on the day of their forgiveness, the penultimate Sunday in July. Known as Chandelles festival, until the end of the th century, because of the many candles lit for the occasion. Saint-Lambert is generally relied on by his charities on the protection of livestock. In Saint-Vran it would appear that the water of the chapel fountain would have the particularity of treating sows and piglets. It would help to give the necessary milk to progenies and prémunirait against all hazardous diseases.

In Romanesque style, the church Notre-Dame de Locmaria is the oldest religious building in Belle-Ile. It offers a th century choir and a th-century pepper bell tower. A legend tells us that Dutch pirates who broke their mast had cut a tree in front of the church. Our Lady déforma the trunk that was rendered unusable. So many pilgrims once thanked Notre-Dame-de-Bois-Twisted.

Located in Antrain, the church of Saint-André was built in the Romanesque period, but it has more modern, and therefore Gothic, elements. Some Romanesque vestiges remain: most of the nave, the transept, and an apse in the north. The church and the chevet were restored in the 16th century. The upper part of the bell tower and the sacristy date from the 18th century. The north chapel overlooking the choir dates from the end of the 19th century. The south door of the nave was named "Porte des Femmes" (Women's Door) because it was used by women to get up after giving birth.

The old oil mill attracts many tourists from the onset of the beautiful days. Restored on several occasions, it is almost in its original state. It should be noted that it is one of the oldest in the region, prior to the Revolution.

Offering the place Garibaldi, the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre is the result of negotiations between the Augustins, the brotherhood of the Bleus Bleu and the city of Nice, which began at the end of the th century, the layout of this space (the Place Pairolière, the future place Garibaldi). Designed by Antonio Spinelli and completed in 1784, the chapel rests on three refends arcades. The real interest of the building lies in these:: it is a religious building in a profane area, an urban place. The chapel is accessed by a double-lateral double staircase, which is very unusual. Treaty on the monumental mode, the entire facade of the chapel is surprising and the columns committed support a entablature and a triangular pediment.

This former Benedictine abbey ceded in 1576 to the Nice chapter was erected in the th century by the nice architect André Guiberto to glorify the young martyr Saint Sante, patron of the city of Nice. Dead in Palestine, the young girl's body would have been placed in a boat and delivered to the Mediterranean. According to tradition, this boat dériva to the nice shore where it was hâlée on the beach by angels. This is the religious explanation of the name «Baie des Anges». The cathedral is inspired by the so-called Roman Baroque, with a triangular pediment and a tightly ordered and balanced facade. Construction had avatars with the collapse of the dome in 1658 and legal problems of acquisition. Its steeple is added to the 1824 th century and the façade restored in with the ornament of four niches with the saints innate merit.

The dite dome with its glazed tiles is shining in the sun. Inside, we admire the master-hotel with the glory of Sainte Sante, the balustrade of the marble chorus, golden friezes and stucco of artist Lombard Pietro Riva.

Joining the Right Street (also very winding), but this name comes from the Latin expression via direta so named because it constituted, in the Middle Ages, the shortest way to connect the North Door to the southern door of the city.

It was in 1825 that this originally most common building will become the first witness building of baroque Baroque thanks to its restored facade with style and framing of windows. The bell of the bell is inspired by architectural architecture with apparent bricks and decorative and glazed tiles.

Inside, the expression "rise to the altar" takes its full meaning through an inclined plan which leads us to the heart of the symbolic art of Baroque art: the most heavily grounded in the soil, which is colours and enriched in the amount of cieux (angelots, friezes, stuccoes and plume). The frescoes of the vaults were painted at the end of the Second Empire by the nice painter Hercule Trachel.

Built in 1780 according to the plans of the Piedmontese architect Bernardo Vidone, this little gem of the Nice Baroque religious architecture is essential. Located on the Cours Saleya, on the right of the prefecture's palace, its sober facade does not announce the many sumptuous decorations inside. Faithful to the demands of Counter-Reformation, ornamentations flatter the meaning of those who enter the interior: moulures made of gilded stucco, marble columns, enchevêtrement of curves and plume, paintings of saints in ecstasy in of the clouds, crystal chandeliers, theatrical lighting through wells of light. On the sides of the choir, there are two frescoes carried out by Maria in 1886, representing the left of the Nativity and on the right the Dormition of the Virgin, themes very poorly treated in Western iconography. It should not be missed: wooden panels painted by the chore awarded to Louis Bréa (1450-1523) and to Miralhet representing the Virgin of Mercy. This chapel has been entrusted to the brotherhood of the black Penance of Mercy since 1828.

More known of the International under the name of Saint Rita Church, patron of desperate causes, it was built in the th century. Transformed into the th century in a beautiful baroque chapel, it is dedicated to Saint-Jacques (Saint-Giaume in International). The railings and the altar are finely decorated with marble inlays. The altarpieces, the casing of the painted vaults, the paintings signed Abraham Louis Van Loo (1641-1712) are noted.

A specimen of Art Deco, this building was built in 1926 to honour the Life (Don in Italian) Bosco, canonized in 1934. Works by architects Lefèvre and Deporta, its construction is resolutely modern by the aesthetic use of reinforced concrete. This technique allows great openings. Inside, stained glass windows adorn the large blue and yellow coloured frescoes, painted by Eugène Doucet.

The Saint-Barthélémy church has a number of changes in its architecture. She knows the capucine phase: expansion and restoration in the th century. In 1750, once again expanded, it must adapt to the growing population of the neighbourhood. Its façade is modified and a campanile of Italian Renaissance style was added in the th century. Finally, sold as a national property under the Revolution, it was returned by the Défly family in 1803.

Its architecture and decoration are subject to the influences of the modes, yet it remains intrinsically baroque. The sober interior presents a set of side chapels dedicated to saints (mainly Franciscan) such as St Clare, Saint Louis de Gonzague, Saint Antoine de Padua or Saint Rita. The main element of its ornamentation remains the triptych painted by International François Bréa (1495-1562): a altarpiece of the Virgin to the Child surrounded by San Sebastián and Saint John Baptiste.

This convent is one of the oldest in Nice. Founded by the monks of the abbey of Saint-Pons, its origin dates back to the th century. It was in 1546 that the Benedictine monks handed over the monastery to the Franciscans of the Respect whose convent was destroyed at the Nice Siege of 1543. Under the French Revolution, the community was expelled and the convent was transformed into barracks and then in hospital. He finds his first function under Sardinian Restoration and becomes church church under the responsibility of the brothers. In the th century, the style of the monastery was completely restored: The neo-Gothic style takes possession of the facades and a porch is built to accommodate the faithful. Inside, the surface of the vaults is revisited by Hercules Trachel who painted frescoes depicting the Assumption of the Virgin as well as the great moments of the life of Saint Francis and St Clare of Assisi. In the second chapel, a very beautiful christ is found in carved wood of the th century. In the third chapel, major work of the church: a altarpiece of Louis Bréa dated 1512 representing the stage of crucifixion. In front of the fourth chapel, a scene of cross deposition attributed to the brother of Louis Bréa, Antoine. In the sixth chapel, a altarpiece containing a pietà, the first known work of Louis Bréa. Nowadays, the monastery welcomes many faithful and the parish is led by four Franciscans: Father Antonio, Sergio, Antoine and Brother Giorgio. Outside, the cloister is open to the public on Sundays morning during the celebration of mass. Classical music concerts are also organized at the time of the Nice Musical Nights.

In 1951, archaeologist Fernand Benoît updated the site of Sainte-Marie-de-l'Assomption Cathedral. It has two phases in its history: It is built in the th century, of Romanesque Romanesque style, small, confined with little openings on the outside. There is a nave with six spans, lower sides and side chapels. The main nave is separated from the choir by a central jubé. The ceiling is tannic and the arc is used in full hanger. The material used is dry (i. e. taillée) stone. Then the cathedral was rebuilt in the th century on the ruins of the old, according to the Gothic style. Although this style was never distributed in Provence, this Gothic building is described as the use of the warhead arch. It adds a campanile that serves as a warehouse.

This church, neo-Gothic, is the largest in Nice. It was built in 1864, immediately following the link between Nice and France. The plans were designed by the Lenormand architect. The lateral naves are extended by a ambulatory with striking chapels.

It borders on the south side, belongs to the brotherhood of Blue Krajina, which explains the blue dominantes of its baroque decor. The church Saint-Martin-Saint-Augustin, Place Saint-Augustin, (in the Middle Ages, many churches were consecrated simultaneously to two saints), the first version of which was built in 1510, is the oldest in Nice. It is said that the young Martin Luther monk from Nice would have celebrated a mass, well before the Reform. Garibaldi was named (it was his neighborhood). Its construction has spread over the centuries: The nave in the th, the choir, with its beautiful baroque decoration in the xviiith century, the last finishing in the th. In the choir, on the left, we can admire the altarpiece and pietà of Louis Bréa,

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Saint Devote is the patron and patron of the Principality. The Roman emperor Diocletian reigned from 284 to 305. It was he who created the reign system to four (tétrarchie) to better manage the vast empire, leading the last large and bloody wave of persecution against followers of the new religion of Christianity.

Corsica saint Devote was one of his victims towards the end of his reign, around 304. Recognized as martyrdom later, a legend perpetuates his memory: fearing that his body is soiled, his entourage manages to recover his remains and put her in a boat… who fails on a beach in Monaco. She was later buried at the foot of the Rock, the base of a future chapel (th century).

The building was entrusted to the monks of the abbey of Saint-Pons and was bought by Lord Honoré Grimaldi I to become a property of the Principality (1536). Several successive churches were erected on the site. The current church dates back to 1870 (Prince Charles III reign). Every year, we commemorate the miraculous return of the holy man by seizing a boat on the of the church.

Its sandstone facade is so discreet that it should be warned to notice it. However, this chapel built in 1704 and restored from the 2000 s contains small treasures: a Christ paper of the th century, an altar Louis XIV and a collection of sacred objects, which make this little church a nice museum very popular with Baroque art or pilgrims of Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle. The site is visited free of charge thanks to the commitment and dedication of the volunteers of the Friends of the Chapel association.