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The church of Saint John the Evangelist was founded by bishop Notger around 980 and he is buried here. It was rebuilt between 1750 and 1765 following the original octagonal plan. Listed as outstanding Wallonia patrimony, it shelters three mediaeval works of art.

Built at the very beginning of the 11th century, the collegiate church of Notre-Dame (which housed a college of nine canons) is a Romanesque building. The nave, very simple, gives the whole complex a certain breadth. The 13th century bell tower, of composite architecture (reuse of elements from the 11th century and repair of the roof after the fire of 1910) is built in a break in the slope and dominates the wide and beautiful valley of the Yèvre.

The collegiate church of Notre-Dame dates from the 12th century, its construction was begun around 1190 by the first of the Lords of Neuchâtel, Ulrich II (1148-1191). Most of the construction was completed around 1270-1280. The collegiate church blends the Gothic, Rhineland Romanesque and Burgundian styles characterised by glazed tiles on the roof.

Built in the 13th and 14th c., one of the most refined churches of the Burgundian Gothic style watches over the medieval town in the company of a whole grotesque little world hanging from its cornices. The porch with its flamboyant pinnacles, the radiating chapels of the apse and the reliefs of the tympanum of the Porte des Bleds are remarkable, as are the interior decoration, the furniture and the stained glass windows. The large classified organs date from the 18th century.

The Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Dinant was built in the 13th and 14th centuries, replacing a previous Romanesque church. Several events damaged the building, such as the sacking of Dinant in 1466 by Philip the Good and the passage of the troops of the Duke of Nevers in 1554. The collegiate church was completely restored in the 19th century under the direction of the architects Schoonejans, Jules-Jacques Van Ysendyck and Auguste Van Assche, whose work aimed to restore the stylistic unity of the 13th century. After being damaged by German troops during the First World War, the church had to be restored once again by the architect Chrétien Veraart between 1919 and 1923.

The collegiate church of Saint Gertrude, built between 992 and 1046, is one of the oldest and largest surviving Romanesque churches. Five successive churches, built between the 7th and 10th centuries, preceded the Romanesque church. The present church was consecrated in the presence of Emperor Henry III (1046-1056). Heavily modified over the centuries, the church took on its present pseudo-Romanesque appearance thanks to a restoration carried out by Simon Brigode after the Second World War.

Half Romanesque church for the choir, the absidioles and part of the transept which date from the beginning of the 12th century, half Gothic for the nave of the 15th century. The chevet is surmounted by a twisted bell tower covered with chestnut shingles. The building has been classified as a historical monument since 1886. What makes the building so special is above all its bell-tower called "clocher-tors". Rare are indeed the churches in France to have an arrow whose sides are not straight, but follow a slight curve, as if they had been twisted.

The collegiate church of Saint-Denis d'Amboise is a Romanesque building built from 1107 by Hugues I, Lord of Amboise. It was built on the site of a first church built in the 4th century by Saint Martin, bishop of Tours. The 12th-century church was a parish, but also the seat of a priory of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Julien de Tours. The parish and the priory were united around 1550. The building was enlarged in the 16th century with the addition of the entire south aisle.

A rare testimony to the Gothic architecture in Ardèche, the church of St Julien is one of the best preserved in this region. Registered on the list of historical monuments, it reminds us of the ancient character of the Tournonian heritage. Probably built on the site of a Roman temple and certainly in the place of a Romanesque church (basic remains of the bell tower), it is dedicated to St Julien, a Roman centurion beheaded in Brioude (Auvergne) during the reign of Emperor Diocletian (245-313). Erected as a collegiate church between 1316 and 1348, the church of St Julien constitutes a rather surprising architectural ensemble: the offset bell tower, the chapels replaced by houses, the Italian-style ceiling give it an atypical character.

The current church of "Saint-Just" or "Saint-Just and the Macchabées", replaces the one that was ravaged by the Protestants in 1562 and which was located on the site of the current archaeological garden of Saint-Just, rue des Macchabées. Its stained glass collection is a beautiful representation of the art of stained glass in Lyon, from the 19th century with the works of Lesourd, Brun-Bastenaire, Gentelet and Godart, Barrelon and Veyrat, Dufêtre, and those of the beginning of the 20th century by the Atelier Nicod.