OUR LADY OF POPULO CHURCH
The flamboyant Gothic building dates from the 16th century, apart from the bell tower and probably the nave which date from the 18th century, which gives it its special character. Built in freestone in 1539 for the Lord of Quelen, the church of Notre-Dame-de-Populo has many statues from the 15th and 16th centuries as well as a very beautiful painted ceiling. The church has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1935. One of its particularities lies in the fact that it houses in its choir a statue representing the so-called Virgin with Demon, an iconographic theme present in Breton statuary, a certain influence of the Immaculists, namely the supporters of the Immaculate Conception at a time when it was not a dogma, but a point of theology debated with enthusiasm...
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