The most beautiful religious buildings New Aquitaine

The church Saint-André is the oldest church in Angoulême, built in the th century. It was the chapel of the counts Taillefer who had their palaces just opposite. This church suffered numerous damage during the Hundred Years War and religious wars. It was completely restored in the th century. His style is a mixture of novel, Gothic and neo-classical, making it an atypical building. More recently, in 1999, the cartoon writer Yslaire painted a wall in contempt, which also worth a detour.

St. Gallen Church is one of the oldest religious foundations in Bordeaux. The texts mention, from the th century, the existence of a women's convent founded by Dagobert I. His son, Sigebert, would have deposited in the altar a relic of St. Eulalia, a young Spanish martyr of the third century. St. Gallen Church, thanks to numerous construction and restoration campaigns, has become a true open book on the history of Bordeaux art over the centuries: all ages and styles blend in, thus making its originality and richness. Its fence grids date back to the th century. It has a very nice stand and many paintings.

Built in the th century instead of a fortified primitive church, the Église church of Specious is in Neo-Gothic style. Easily recognisable with its high steeple-porch, a real lighthouse of the canton, the church consists of a long central vessel of five spans completed by a polygonal apse.

It is one of the few Cluniac sites in the department, along with the Abbey of Saint-Maurin. Its construction began in the middle of the 11th century and it took nearly a century before the priory was built in its entirety. The Romanesque architecture is perfectly preserved. Pay attention to the modillions on the façade and the capitals of the interior columns. The church was registered on the list of historical monuments in 1846. In 2018, the façade of the building was refreshed.

Parish church of the Assumption of the Virgin. The crypt is what remains of a primitive place of worship. The construction extends from 1019 to 1220, both Romanesque and Gothic. Notice the high relief on the southern portal representing the Virgin to the Child. Note two paintings, La Virgin surrounded by a angels concert of Pieter van Mol (1512 th century) and a copy of a fresco executed by Raphaël in at the Vatican on the initiative of Pope Jules II. There are beautiful sculptures. In the course of the work.

Built in the 1591 th century, partly destroyed during the Hundred Years War, rebuilt in 1489, destroyed in 1673, it was, from 1681 to, recorded from a part of its ruins and decorated with beautiful woodwork. The church includes a Romanesque part, the square of the transept surmounted by the steeple, the choir and a Gothic part, the western portal of the th century. You enter the perimeter of the church by a beautiful th century granite portal with six voussures, with a great number of outstanding invoice characters. A garden occupies the location of the nave and its bas. There will be debris debris, tents, a toe point on which, according to legend, Saint Martial would have been linked to slam him during his passage to Ahun. On the right, entering the church, a limestone altarpiece from the end of the th century. But the remarkable element is the ensemble of woodwork executed from 1673 by Simon Bauer, faire sculptor. The altarpiece that controls the autel covered in its lower leather part of Cordoba is made up of high columns adorned with pampre with birds, snakes and snails. It is gathered at stalls by a richly decorated intermediate etc. The 26 stalls are decorated with a variety of fantaisie. The fence of the choir is surmounted by two Christ attached to the same cross, one turned towards the east, the other (crowned) to the west. In the middle of the choir, a remarkable stand made up of a octagonal base column and two made-back lions, apparently, in the same oak piece. In the chore, two polychrome wooden statues, shrines, a wooden cross of the th or th century and another in boxes of the th century (guided tours all year round: 05 55 62 53 93).