The most beautiful churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels New Aquitaine

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).

Nestled between the th and th centuries environments, this Romanesque-style church originally consisted of a choir, a transept and a nave with three spans. It was enlarged from bas to the early th century. The chevet, with Cistercian inspiration, is the oldest part. Struck by lightning in 1841, his bell was rebuilt by Viollet-le-Duc. Inside, take the time to observe the floral motifs carved on the columns of columns that overcome the spans, beautiful woodwork, 1864 th century stalls, pietà wooden pietà of the 1874 th century or the organ of Cavaillé-Coll, realized between and in the neo-Renaissance style. In the th century, François Bosroussel, a master doctor in Ussel, ordered the foil of the quartermaster, the tabernacle and the altarpiece (the latter is not present anymore).

This chapel was built in the th century, at a time when the cemetery of the St. Martin Church was transferred to the city hospital. It underwent a change in the th century when the brotherhood of blue Krajina (whose spirituality is inspired by the Franciscan ideal) settled there. A pole of religious arts at the Musée du Pays d'Ussel, it contains beautiful collections of art and religious ethnography. It contains a magnificent golden altarpiece, works by Paul Delimosin (1711), a Pentecôte Frères (1664), a socket in champlevé enamel from the early th century as well as polychrome wooden statues.

Located at the top of Pasteur Street, La Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Chabanne is a rural chapel, which benefits from calm and a green setting away from the city. His view dominates the town of Ussel. Built in the mid th century as a chamber, it is characterized by its large and massive walls surmounted by a large slate roof. His bell was the subject of three restorations: one in 1750, the other in the aftermath of the Second World War and the last in 1993. This religious building has a glazed dome painted in 169, the realization of which would be attributed to Jean Jaloustre, a painter from the nearby small town of Meymac (according to the Ussel tourist office). The ancient statue of the Virgin was destroyed in 1793. The stone sculpture of the Virgin to the Child, whose base is adorned with two bumble and Coquilles shells, dates back to the th century. The statue, now visible above the door, is a copy; The original was deposited at the Doubs Chapel (at the bottom of Pasteur Street).

The building is located in the place of La Coomb, in a curve opposite and at the height of Curemonte. The church is one of the oldest in Corrèze in the th century. The missing parts and ouvertures show that it has crossed the ages by limits. In a primitive Romanesque style, it marks the spirits by its sobriety and compact shape, due in particular to the disappearance of a second nave in the north. Large stone slabs on the main nave lead to the polygonal form and the very simple decoration. The collapsed vault was replaced by a chapente. Children like the least young can have fun looking for the sculpted shapes on the modillons that support cornices. It is no longer a place of worship but hosts summer exhibitions (paintings, sculptures or photos) organized by the Friends of Curemonte.

Just two kilometres from the castle, this parish church, which is majestic and solitary in the countryside, is worth a look at the castle. After founding castrum de Pompadour, Guy de Lastours rebuilt at the beginning of the th century the church of Arnac. He decided to transfer the relics of Saint Pardoux and set up a priory that he entrusted to the Saint Martial Abbey in Limoges. The church is then dedicated to Saint Peter, and a small monastery (now disappeared) is added to it. The Romanesque art lovers overlooks the architecture presenting a unique nave with three spans as well as the remarkable set of historiés capitals, production of the sculptors of Bas-Limousin in the th century. On its western facade in broken arches, the first Gothic limousin, three niches houses statues, the Virgin virgin surrounded by Saint Martial, left and Saint Pardoux, on the right.