The most beautiful churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels New Aquitaine

The small church Saint-Cybard is looking forward to its elegant clocher in pine apple. The Roman chevet is built on a crypt, and the facade, festonnée of three floors of arcatures, rises to the rays of the sunset sun. Inside, the stylized foliage and sculpted faces of the modillons bear the imprint of the Hispanic-Moorish art. A crypt with a low vault occupies all the space under the choir. The single nave is covered with a broken cradle vault and a faux dome. There is a small mystery: the rounding of the apse of the apse is pierced with a slightly décalé oculus to the northeast. On the day of St. Cybard, on July 1, a rising sun beam penetrates through this small hole and crosses the church in its axis. In the village it was said that the light-cast was struck by a statue or image wisely placed on that day in the choir. The church is often open, if not ask the key to the town hall. Inside, the stylized foliage and sculpted faces of the modillons bear the imprint of the Hispanic-Moorish art. At the foot of the hill, which serves as a seat in the village, the countryside deploys its grain fields and wooded horizons.

The Region is the country of churches. That of Grézac is worth a detour. Dedicated to Saint Symphorien, this church of the th century reveals under the apse of the right a remarkable ossuary crypt, one of the most beautiful of Region. The facade is carved with bas-reliefs perfectly preserved (martyrdom of Saint Symphorien, fox and stork).

St. John Baptiste Chapel, known as La-Croix-au-Bost, is the only remaining element of the hospital tissue that once stood. Built in the 1984 th century, it presents impressive murals dating back to the second half of the th century, which in made the subject of classification in Historical monuments. There are decorative elements, apostles but also, and in fragmentary scenes, Adam and Eve or even the old Vieillards of Revelation. In the same place, the th century master-altar in polychrome carved wood also takes the visitor's attention. One point must be stressed, however: This little treasure remains closed and, to discover it, we must meet the charming old lady who lives next door, only in the hamlet to hold the key.

No doubt the charm of the village owes much to its Romanesque church, built in the th century and, as often the churches of Limousin, a wall wall. Carved in local granite, the building has a unique nave and flat bedside. Inside, murals of the Gothic period were preserved, updated in the 1980 s. Dated th and th centuries, they present, among other reasons, a Christ in glory and reproductions of architecturés elements.

The parish church of Notre-Dame was built in the^4th quarter of the 17th century (1688). The church only became a parish church in 1793. The date 1846 which appears on the key of the arch of the entrance portal, corresponds to a great campaign of works, with in particular the construction of the porch and the reorganization of the bell tower. At the end of the 19th century, new installations were made, including the installation of stained glass windows by master glass artist Pierre Dagrand. The building was redesigned and decorated with stained glass windows in the 20th century.

Its oldest parts date back to 1100.

The Floralies that take place every spring are a beautiful entrance door to discover this village classified as one of the most beautiful in France. The best is to arrive at the th century Romanesque bridge, with its round rollers on the ground and its beaks moving on the Côle, whose banks are populated, in calmer places, with herons and poules. The church Saint-Jean-Baptiste, built around 1083, with its high walls of 12 metres in sandstone, is the old priory of the priory. Its plan is unique in Périgord, organized in half-circle around the apse, the nave being composed of a square span once topped with a dome. The corniche includes 75 sculpted modillons, representing masks, animals, birds… Capitals are sculpted of animals and characters: Daniel in the grave of the lions, the Annunciation, Noah under vines… In apse, carved panels and canvas paintings were installed in the xviiith century. The church-backed hall offers a superb perspective (open church from to). The former priory is private and only visits for the heritage days.