No cathedral had been built in France for over 100 years. This ambitious edifice built by the Swiss architect Mario Botta (a tilte...

Evry and its immediate surroundings has a rich and varied heritage of religious architecture: the cathedral of the Resurrection, t...

Already famous for its pilgrimage, this little village was enriched, during the reign of Saint Louis, by the construction of a san...

The Chapel is the sole remaining vestige of an old hospice for the sick built in 1136, and survives now as the home, since 1963, o...

Over half a century of Russian culture is represented in this cemetery, which has now attained the status of a place of remembranc...

Etampes boasts a remarkable heritage of religious buildings such as the churches of Saint-Basile, Saint-Gilles, Notre-Dame-du-Fort...

A XIIth and XIIIth century Gothic edifice reworked frequently over the course of time. With its impressive interior volumes it is ...

After seven years of restoration work, the church of Saint-Médard in Brunoy, the whole of which is listed as a Historic Monument, ...

A vast Romanesque church begun in the XIth century by the lords of Montlhéry on the site of a Druidic place of worship, to house a...

This is surely the most astonishing of the churches on the Essonne, not because of its architecture style or its age (XIIth centur...

A 12th century Grandmontane priory is to be found three kilometres from Dourdan, in the very heart of the Ouÿe forest. Significant...

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Louis-du-Temple in Vauhallan on the Saclay plateau towers over the valley of the Bièvre. The faithf...