ABBEY CHURCH OF SAINT-CHEF
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Church with an exceptional fresco decoration in Romanesque-Byzantine style, among the richest and best preserved.
If history starts in the century with Saint-Theudère, the Benedictine monastery is built between the th and th centuries. In the 80 th century, the monastery, at its peak, has under its orders a dozen priories and about parish churches whose monks animate religious life and affect income and taxes. The abbey is decorated with a large collection of frescoes (the most beautiful frescoes are only visible in guided tours and upon reservation with the tourist office of Saint-Chef, in the interest of access and extreme conservation). Well later, the Saint-Chef Abbey church was one of the very first buildings classified historic monument by Prosper Mérimée in 1840. A fascinating witness of architecture and Romanesque art, the church houses a decor of exceptional frescoes in the Romano-Byzantine style, among the richest and best preserved that have been achieved to us. At the heart of this ensemble, the high chapel, known as Chapel des Anges, is responsible for evoking even today the heavenly Jerusalem, according to the apocalyptic vision of Saint John. The th century portal is one of the few flamboyant Gothic examples in the department of Isère. Dating back to 1833, the organ is classified. The abbey city, for its part, has left a strong footprint in the village, where stands houses with turrets, flowers doors, windows bays in the village, remains of the castle and its fortifications…
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