Travel Guide Les Aix-D'Angillon

In "Aix" the traces of the primitive haia word ("hedge") are found, name given by the Francs to their fortresses. The village would therefore have been founded at the time of barbarian invasions. " Angillon "comes from Gillon de Seuly (or Sully), which orna the village of a beautiful church at the end of the th century. At the foot of the hills of Sancerrois and on the edge of the plain of Champagne berrichonne, this commune has a beautiful old quarter with an old door. Dating back to the early th century, the Romanesque church is built on the model of Cluny, with a square tower in the center, and a cross of narrow transept of narrow openings named "berrichons passages" and surmounted by a dome on the tubes. The great Saint-Germain Church contrasts with the vastitude of its nef nave, covered with a cradle in structure, the architectural complexity and the decorative richness of the eastern parts: transept, covered at the intersection of a trompes dome, a three-storey choir of arcades, arcatures and arched windows flanked by absidioles and lower sanctuary and semi-circular plane. Outside, this beautiful apse is punctuated by four columns-columns separating the windows framed by a beautiful tiers, at the top a blind tiers in the carved sculpted decor, archivolte the windows of chapels decorated with billets and stars, the corniche is supported by sculpted crows of small heads and objects and elegant capitals.