OUR WHITE LADY
Church with carved friezes on the exterior facades and a stained glass ...Read more
ROYAL ABBEY OF FONTEVRAUD
Abbey in the Loire Anjou Touraine Regional Park, the elegant and largest ...Read more
SAINT COSME PRIORY
A remarkable priory in La Riche, a place steeped in meaning and history, ...Read more
HOLY CROSS CATHEDRAL
Orléans' Sainte-Croix cathedral offers a walk to the top of the towers to ...Read more
ST. GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL
Cathedral of Saint-Gatien in Tours, with a choir with a beautiful example ...Read more
PSALTERY CLOISTER
Cloister with courtyard lined with galleries, testifying to the transition ...Read more
CAROLINGIAN ORATORY
Carolingian oratory built in 806, with a remarkable 9th-century Byzantine ...Read more
PRIORY OF NOTRE-DAME DE CUNAULT
Today, the priory church in Cunault is a luminous, majestic church ...Read more
SAINTE-JEANNE-D'ARC CHURCH
The church was rebuilt under the direction of architect Paul Gelis.Read more
CHURCH OF SAINTE-MADELEINE
Read moreCharacterized by its flat chevet, this church is under the patronage of Sainte Madeleine, represented seven times in this remarkable stained glass program. The majority was carried out by the Lobin workshop of Tours - between 1860 and 1878. This ensemble presents a large unit of style. The number of glass panes and stained glass windows is quite considerable and, of course, everyone has a history. Visit this church with the President of the Association of Friends of the Church of Sainte-Madeleine: specialist in religious heritage, he makes this walk between alcoves and chapels absolutely exciting! He décryptera every window, including the one so called "Japanese", which is deemed to be unparalleled so far, but also mural paintings, including an ex-voto reminiscent of an epidemic of plague. In one of the chapels, a burial urn contains the heart of the painter Anne-Louis Girodet (to whom the city also devoted a museum, currently in work), while the great christ is the model carved by Triqueti, for his christ of the Invalides. The spire of the bell was restored by a pupil of Violet the Duke. The church has undergone an important internal and external work campaign to bring it back to its ancient splendour.
SAN MARTIN BASILICA
The Basilica of Saint-Martin is today a 19th century basilica, designed by ...Read more
NOTRE-DAME-DES-ARDILLIERS ROYAL CHAPEL
Chapel declared Royal Chapel after the discovery of a stone pietà next to ...Read more
ST. LOUIS CATHEDRAL
The relics of Saint Solenne are deposited in Saint-Louis Cathedral, where a ...Read more
ST. MAURITIUS CATHEDRAL
Saint-Maurice Cathedral in the Angevin Gothic style, with an imposing high ...Read more
ABBEY CHURCH OF THE TRINITY
Church whose stained glass window of the Virgin in Majesty dating from the ...Read more
7 STEEPLES HIKES
A hike to Chinon, to visit a magnificent Romanesque church retracing the ...Read more
FLEURY ABBEY
Abbey with a crypt containing the relics of Saint Benedict, a jewel of ...Read more
ST. LAWRENCE COLLEGE
Read moreIt is necessary to climb a little to reach this splendid Romanesque church built in the 11th and 12th centuries. You will discover a magnificent polychrome sculpture of characters and animals from the bestiary of the Middle Ages as well as two pyramids, called "dubes". These, as well as the Romanesque portal and the stained glass windows, have just been restored. The Collegiate Church contains the tomb of Agnes Sorel and possibly that of Ludovico Sforza, patron of Leonardo da Vinci. After archaeological excavations in 2019 and 2021, DNA research should confirm the probabilities (90%).