Churches in France

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

This remarkable checkered church on a Corsican hilltop is fabled to have been built by angels.