BASILIC
This typical Romanesque building is located on the route to Santiago de Compostela.
The village of Neuvy-Saint-Sepcre owes its name to its basilica. Its construction, on the model of the Saint-Sepret of Jerusalem, begins the return of pilgrimage from Eudes de Déols to the Holy Land in 1042. This typically Romanesque building, located on the road to Santiago de Compostela, is unique in France. The monument consists of a central nef with collateral and flat and a rotunda, with a circular ambulatory with three levels of arcades. Admire the eleven columns that delineate the span and sculpted decor of the rotunda, acanthe sheets and symbolic bestiary of lions, cats, centaurs, snakes, etc. In 1257, another Eudes de Déols, cardinal and legate of the Pope to the seventh crusade, donated to the Chapter of a fragment of the tomb of Christ and three drops of his blood. This relic is responsible for the pilgrimage of the Precious Blood of Christ, which is always held on Easter Monday.
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