Built in 1852 by the architect Tournesac, the Gesù chapel is a neo-gothic building whose spire dominates the west of the town of Poitiers. Closed to worship in 1870, it was acquired in 1950 by the Vienne department, which set up its archives there. From 2010 and 2012, the Gesù chapel was transformed into a complex of hotel and restaurant.
Notre-Dame-la-Grande of Poitiers is a painted Romanesque church dating from the eleventh century. Its beautiful facade of Romanesque Poitevin style illustrates pages of the Bible. It was restored in 1992-1995.
The Saint-Pierre Cathedral of Poitiers was built around 1160 on a first building of the eleventh century. This Gothic church was not completed before 1379. Transformed into "temple of reason" during the French Revolution, it was returned to worship in 1795.
This Romanesque church was the chapel of a castle that has now disappeared. Renovated in 2009, part of its stained glass windows is contemporary while the rest is period.
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