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The beautiful and emblematic church of St. Nicholas, built in the 12th and 13th centuries, was listed as a historical monument in 1928 and classified as a historical monument in 1947. For centuries, it has housed "Our Lady of Miracles", a polychrome wooden statue "achéiropoïète" (i.e.: not made by human hand, and therefore miraculous), itself classified as a historical monument, whose presence in these places is attested since 1328. This statue is today the object of a pilgrimage at the beginning of December. The nave, the oldest part, is Romanesque, while the choir is in Gothic style. The whole is very harmonious, installed on the high point of the Old Saint-Maur. Place of celebrations, the church also hosts musical events thanks to its organ with its velvety sound of the 19th century, recently raised. It is the subject of guided presentations and receives many visitors all year round.

In the heart of the Saint-Cyprien district, the church of Saint-Nicolas is one of the finest examples of southern Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries. The history of this edifice is strongly marked by the floods that repeatedly devastated the Left Bank district of Toulouse. This is why the inhabitants chose Saint Nicolas, protector of sailors, as patron saint for their church, which was supposed to save them from sinking.

"Temple of the Hymen and Fidelity" in 1795, the church was returned to worship in 1802. It was restored in the first half of the 19th century (in 1823 and again in 1843). Altarpiece of the main altar by Simon Vouet and Jacques Sarrazin.

The neo-Gothic Church of Saint-Odo was built in 1885. The tower of an earlier castle church still stands next to it. The church was renovated and extended in 1955.

The chapel Saint-Omer was built in 1230. In the 16th century, the body of the church was added, giving the buildings its current structure. The plan of the church is simple: a bell tower, a stone nave covered with a paneled vault, a choir, two chapels and a sacristy (seventeenth century). You can notice the cross vaulted transept ogives (sixteenth century) complex drawing.

The Saint-Omer church is located in Ochtezeele, in the Hauts-de-France region. The church was built on the foundations of a former 12th century oratory, whose main facade can still be seen on the western side, and is the main witness to the original Romanesque style building. The enlargement of the building took place in the 15th-16th century. Built on a church-hall plan, very popular in the coastal region, the church includes an octagonal bell tower which is one of the highest in Flanders.

The Church of Saint-Omer church is located in Setques, in the Hauts-de-France region. The Gothic style building reflects the high monuments after the wars of the sixteenth century. The flat chevet of the choir and the lower level of the tower date from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. In the 18th century, restorations were made, as the church was rebuilt in 1863, on the same foundations, but with buttresses.

The Church of Saint-Omer is in the centre of the village and the actual state of the chalk stone blocks with which it is built shows several phases of construction and restoration.

Given to the Abbey of Lyre in the eleventh century, the pre-Romanesque church was a simple building in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with a single nave extended by a slightly narrower long choir vault. In 1792, the church Saint-Ouen de Rubremont, became "the public room of the common house" - then a barn that passed into the hands of several owners. It was only in 2010 and with the creation of a local association that the church was restored.

A jewel of 15th and 16th century architecture, it offers an example of the richness of Breton Gothic. In 1867, Arthur Regnault, a prolific architect in Ille-et-Vilaine, replaced the old structural bell tower with a Cornish style stone bell tower. What makes the beauty and interest of the church is not only the beautiful architectural layout of the building, the sculptural details that cover its walls, the elegance of its flamboyant windows and its pediments crowned with flowers, but also the quality of its 16th century stained glass windows. The Passion, Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi, but also scenes from the life of the Virgin are revealed in all the magic of colours.