Langres Cathedral

The Church of Saint-Félix de Maulain, which is still surrounded by its cemetery, is located in Val-de-Meuse. The church includes a nave with a single, eighteenth century vessel with a barrel vault, topped by a thirteen century choir, which has a flat chevet, that was renovated in the 15th century. Inside, there are several statues, including a 15th century Virgin of Mercy and a 15th century statue of Saint Maurice.

The Notre-Dame de Gray basilica is the parish church of the town of Gray, in Franche-Comte. Attached to the diocese of Besancon, it is part of the parish of Notre-Dame de Gray. It was built in the 15th and 16th centuries, in a hybrid Gothic-Renaissance style, on the site of the first Notre-Dame church destroyed in 1477 during the War of the Burgundy Succession. Since 1641 it has housed the heart of Saint Pierre Fourier and since 1802 the miraculous statue of Notre-Dame de Gray. The possession of these two relics earned him the elevation to the title of minor basilica on July 16, 1948 by Pope Pius XII.

Because of its location above a high plateau, the church literally dominates the city. Here stood the important fortified castle of the Dukes of Burgundy and the bishops of Langres, of which only a few sections of the walls remain. A church preserving the relics of Saint-Vorles existed there since the 9th century. The collegiate church built at the beginning of the 11th century by the bishop of Langres is one of the oldest Romanesque buildings in Burgundy. The Lombard bands that decorate the exterior of the church are characteristic of the so-called Lombard art, found in the contemporary churches of Saint-Philibert de Tournus and Saint-Bénigne de Dijon, but which is rare in this northern part of Burgundy. A rather Ottonian or Carolingian influence can be noticed in the westbau of the church, which is a real two-storey western transept crowned by a bell tower, reminiscent of the great Rhine churches.