HERITAGE AND TOURISM
Churches
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Step inside the church of Notre-Dame de Montmirail, a Petite Cité de Caractère (Small Town of Character) which, as its name suggests, dominates the Perche region of Sarthe. Built between the 12th and 16th centuries, it harmoniously blends Romanesque and Gothic styles and preserves a remarkable architectural heritage, reflecting the religious and seigneurial history of the town. -
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Situated in the heart of a Ternois commune that has been awarded the ‘Village Patrimoine’ label, the church Saint Sulpicius has undergone a number of restorations. The most important of these was carried out by the architect Clovis Normand at the end of the 19th century. The bell tower-porch, which has been protected as a Historic Monument since 1906, is thought to have remained intact since the end of the 15th century. -
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Our Lady of Avioth, which became a basilica in 1993, is also known as ‘the cathedral of the fields’. This masterpiece of flamboyant Gothic architecture is surprisingly large, standing in the centre of a small village in the Nord-Meusien region, in the heart of the former county of Chiny, close to Orval Abbey and the citadel of Montmédy. -
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Don't hesitate to come and discover the Church of Saint John the Baptist in Abbeville, located in the suburb of Rouvroy. Its elegant 19th-century neo-Gothic architecture replaced a building from the early 16th century, which itself was built to replace a chapel intended to house the relics of Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of the sick and disabled.
