Saint-Christophe Church in Vianne

The Church of Saint-Christophe was built in the 12th century, according to tradition by the Knights Templar, before the bastide was founded. The only remaining monument from the old village of Villelongue, the church symbolizes the link between Villelongue and the Bastide de Vianne.
The church was once attached to a priory, destroyed during the French Revolution, whose buildings were located between the church and the ramparts of the bastide. It belonged to the Benedictine monks of Cluny until 1395, then to the monks of La Sauve.
The church, built in a very pure Romanesque style, with its capitals inspired by the priory of Moirax, was enlarged in the 14th century with the addition of a bay and a Gothic portal to the west and a chapel to the north. The murals were painted in 1856 by Tarlas. Listed as a Historic Monument in 1889, the church was then restored in 1910.