THE CHURCH OF ST. MARTIN
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It is the most important of the fortified churches in Upper Vienne. Romanesque church with a parochial wall whose bedside, adjoining the city walls, was probably destroyed during the passage of the British troops of the Prince of Wales in 1371, it was rebuilt in the th century and fortified. An impressive architecture 30 metres long and 6 metres wide, with an impressive defensive system: gallery worn on machicolated, slots and round holes used as gunboat, access to the attic by a single opening at 3,50 m, wells in the sanctuary under the nave for water and underground refuelling allowing the evacuation and supply of the population in case of danger. The four-voussures portal, dating from the early church (th century), is decorated with limousines. The ogives arch has a bedside lighted by a beautiful window in flamboyant Gothic style.
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