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The construction of the church began in 1220 and was completed in the 15th century. During the revolution it was used as an iron and lead store. Partial destructions took place, the first one in 1940 with the war. The stained glass windows exploded. A second one takes place in 1973, a tornado destroys the spire which collapses on the roof.

The church of Saint-Sauveur in Aubagne is a Romanesque church built between the 11th and 12th centuries and consecrated on 18 October 1615 by the bishop of Marseille. The church was adjacent to a castle that was destroyed during the French Revolution.

The church of St. Severin has been a parish church since the 9th century. The Gothic building dates mainly from the 15th century when the church had to be rebuilt after the previous one burnt down. However, the bell tower, the three western bays and parts of the façade have been preserved from the 13th-century building. The ambulatory, which is doubled in size due to the five naves, is considered to be the most architecturally valuable part of the church, while the modern stained glass windows are certainly one of the church's attractions.

The church of Saint-Siffrein, built between the 15th and 16th centuries, was the cathedral of the diocese of Carpentras until 1790. After the collapse of the nave of the previous Romanesque building, a new cathedral in Gothic style was built from 1404 onwards. The unfinished west façade contains two large 15th-century stained glass windows; the upper part of the façade was covered between 1615 and 1618, and the neo-Gothic bell tower is noteworthy. The nave, supported by buttresses between which side chapels are built, is extended by a narrower and lower choir and a seven-sided apse, a remarkable example of French Southern Gothic.

This church was built in 1547 at the request of Charles the Fifth. It was destroyed in 1918 and rebuilt between 1924 and 1927 by the architect Cordonnier. In neo-Gothic style, it is built in brick and a little stone, and thus refers to the Flemish Gothic brick churches. This neo-Flemish style is characteristic of the architect Louis Marie Cordonnier, and there were many reconstructions in the region after the First World War. The church is not purely neo-Gothic or neo-Flemish, it incorporates many references to French classical Gothic, and above all it gives pride of place to modern techniques such as the metal frames that structure the vaults.

The construction of the abbey began in the 12th century, followed by the addition of turrets and a porch with Romanesque Norman features in 1230. The church became a parish church during the Revolution, after the abbey was suppressed.

The church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, locally called "Church of the Reformed", owes its current name to a chapel of the reformed Augustinians of the seventeenth century who occupied this site. Destroyed in 1868, it was replaced by the current church inaugurated in 1886. The church is registered as a historical monument since 2015.

Progressive and very extensive construction over time: after a fire in the 13th century, the building was rebuilt. Several works to enlarge it followed, notably the construction of the nave in the 10th century, and the construction of the tower in the 16th century.

The church of Saint Vivien was built in the 11th or 12th century. Around the 13th or 14th century, the two bays of the nave were vaulted; the one next to the entrance has its vault intact; the other one barely shows remains of arches. We also know that the church was decorated with paintings. The artists of the time decorated the walls and columns with ochre and yellowish tones.

The church of Saint-Vulfran is a former collegiate church dedicated to Saint Vulfran since the 11th century. It was not until the end of the 15th century that the construction of the current flamboyant Gothic building began. In 1524, the nave was consecrated and work accelerated until 1539, when the western walls of the transept were brutally interrupted due to lack of funds. It was not until 1661 that a new cycle of work was carried out, which added the apse to the church in two years, still in a "Gothic" style, but with considerably reduced forms. During the Second World War, the collegiate church suffered a lot of damage, which was repaired by a long restoration campaign.