Notre-Dame de la Couture is a former abbey church in the centre of the present-day town of Le Mans. The abbey was founded jus ...
Alès was formerly a centre of the Huguenots and was taken only after a long siege by Louis XIII in 1627. The Roman Cat ...
The Abbey of Saint-Roman is a cave monastery which includes the ruins of a castle (château de Saint-Roman-d"Aiguil ...
The monastery of Chartreuse St Sauveur, listed monument and unmissable site in the region, is a 15th century flamboyant Gothi ...
The construction of St. Denis’ Church was started about 1107 by Hugues, the first Lord of Amboise. It was built on the ...
Redon Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Redon) is a former Benedictine abbey founded in 832 by Saint Conwoïon. Both Count R ...
The collegiate church of Saint-Mexme was the main religious building in Chinon up to the Revolution. It was originally built ...
Ardenne is the third largest abbey in Caen region. It was founded in 1121 by a small Christian community. During the 1789 Rev ...
Built in the 15th and 16th centuries, King Henry IV of France is said to have declared the church of Caudebec-en-Caux to have ...
The origin of Saint-Ferme Abbey is unknown, but it was probably founded in the 6th-8th centuries. The current buildings date ...
The Sainte-Croix church of Oloron-Sainte-Marie was built from 1080, at the same time as the city of Sainte-Croix was establis ...
In the mid-12th century, a priest named Turstin withdrew to a wooded Norman hill to live as a hermit, where he was quickly jo ...
Monastir del Camp ("The Monastery Camp") was, according a legend, founded by the request of Charlemagne after his v ...
Sablonceaux Abbey is a former Augustinian monastery established in 1136 by William X, Duke of Aquitaine. He initially support ...
Moyenmoutier abbey was founded by Saint Hydulphe in 671. In 915 the abbey was pillaged and torched by a Hungarian raiding pa ...
Chapelle des Marins (The seamens' chapel) was built in the 11th century. The old church was torn down in 1864, but its Romane ...
Saint-Pons-de-Thomières Cathedral was formerly the seat of the Bishopric of Saint-Pons, founded like a number of bishoprics ...
Senez Cathedral formerly the seat of the Bishopric of Senez, abolished under the Concordat of 1801, when its territory was ...
Notre-Dame de Saint-Veran Cathedral in Cavaillon was built in the 11th century, raised in the 12th century and underwent exte ...
Rieux Cathedral was the seat of the Ancien Régime diocese of Rieux, created in 1317 and dissolved in 1790. The cathedral w ...