The Church of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines :She(it) contains the only one nef, the long transept and three very deep semicircular apses following a plan in cross in the arm very marked.

The refection of the XII-th century consisted especially in covering the building vaults and in decorating the facade into which was integrated the famous girder of the door, major work of the Romanic sculpture. A registration allows to date him(it) 1019-1020.


Inside a Romanic font on a capital(big top) of the XII-th century.


Situated in 2 km of Saint-Genis-des-Fontaines in the North, the Chapel Santa-Coloma ( saint - dove) of Huts is a small building of medieval origin.


This chapel is of a very simple plan: nef unique(only), short transept added late and flat head. The Convent:

Remarkable by its simplicity and its alternation of colours of pink, white and grey marble. It is about a late Romanic convent because of the XIII-th and which, since its creation until the French Revolution by way of the Treaty of Pyrenees undergoes the history.

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