The Abbey of Cluny was founded in 909 by the Duke of Aquitaine and Count William I of Auvergne. The Abbey was notable for its stricter adherence to the Rule of St Benedict and the place where the Benedict Order was ... Read more

Saint-Philibert de Tournus is a former monastery. Monument complex, the abbey of Tournus is a crypt, itself composed of several spaces, a ground floor, with choir with ambulatory with five radiating chapels, transept chapels directed to, three-aisled nave increased two chapels to the north, and preliminary three-aisled nave as ... Read more

Notre-Dame de Paris, is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris. It is not the biggest French cathedral, but it is indisputably one of the most remarkable ever produced Gothic architecture in France and was at its completion the largest cathedral ... Read more

For twelve centuries, from Dagobert I to Louis XVIII, almost all the kings of France were buried in the basilica of Saint-Denis north of Paris. During the French Revolution in 1793, Bertrand Barrere of Vieuzac requestes that the mausoleums are all destroyed. The bodies ... Read more

The city owes its fame since the thirteenth century when the tomb of St. Maximin and St. Madeleine were discovered. According to tradition, Mary Magdalene, after long years of penance in the cave of the Sainte-Baume, was reportedly buried in the crypt of ... Read more

It is a shrine built on the site of the tomb of St Saturnin in Toulouse bishop, martyred in 250. The original location of the tomb of St Saturnin was an oratory built at the instigation of the first bishop of ... Read more