Eglise Saint-Genest à Lavardin|
Churches with frescos
These chuches are unlike others you have seen.
We have selected surprising and marvelous treasures that you will certainly enjoy discovering. Let’s take a moment for an art history lesson about frescos and their technique so that you can appreciate their beauty…
Twenty churches to visit
- The miraculous catch of fishes to be discovered in the capitular room of the Trinity Abbey in Vendôme.
- Christ in majesty in the Saint Gilles chapel in Montoire-sur-le-Loir (see the full-scale reconstitution at the Cité de I’Architecture in Paris).
- Saint-Genest church in Lavardin, one of the “most beautiful villages of France”.
- Saint-Jacques-des-Guérets church at the foot of the little troglodytic town of Trôo.
- Areines church with 12th century frescos.
- Saint-Calais church in Meslay with 20th century Byzantine-style paintings.
Along this circuit, all together there are about twenty churches that can be visited every day from Easter to All Saints’ Day.
If a church happens to be locked, a panel tells you where you can get the key.
Salle Capitulaire de l'abbaye de la Trinité à Vendôme|
Fresques église Areines |
église Saint Pierre à Souday|
