LA ROTONDE
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This jewel of Romanesque art, dated third quarter of the 12th century and dedicated to Saint Mary, is one of the few known buildings whose plan is circular, and barely altered by additions that were done later. Undoubtedly, the current church replaced an original one, it is also dedicated to The Virgin, mentioned for the first time in the texts in 1096, during the burial of Dalmace, one of the archbishops of Narbonne. Unique in the world by its architecture and sculptures, the building has a seven-sided cupola that surmounts the whole: it has many capitals and an Assumption Virgin in a "Mandorle", works of the Master of Cabestany, a famous sculptor of the 12th century. It has a porch where you can see the plain and twisted toric mouldings, trimmed with pearls and gate jambs that are richly carved in interlacing acanthus leaves, in a fine and compact stone, a marble altar of Caunes-Minervois, a beautiful heptagonal bell tower. This rotunda was built following the biblical passage "Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars." An unmissable visit just for its architectural feature and the beauty of its interior.
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