Romanesque art in Haute Gironde

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CDT 33 - Hubert Sion

The churches and Templar chapels in Magrigne, Asques and Saint-Martin-Lacaussade once provided lodging for pilgrims on the Way of Saint James of Compostela. The chapel in Magrigne contains some very fine murals and a Maltese cross.

The Saint-Saturnin-de-la-Libarde chapel in Bourg includes a magnificent and very old Romanesque crypt and sculpted capitals.

In Sainte-Eulalie, the church stands on a Gallo-Roman site and is one of the few in Gironde with a semi-circular apse and two side-aisles with flat chevets.

The remains of the Saint-Romain crypt are on the site of a vast necropolis in which, so legend has it, the body of Roland lay.

Also well worth a visit are the churches in Marcenais, Saint-Gervais, Tauriac, Bayon, Saint-Laurent d’Arce and Marcillac