DOMINICAN CHURCH
Free admission
Presentation
* This site is managed by the town and is open for hire. Please contact the Palais des Congrès on 04 68 68 26 26. The Dominican church is a sublime historic site that hosts a variety of events. The Dominicans established themselves in Saint-Jacques in 1240, in a perimeter area outside the original city walls.
The Dominican church is a sublime historic site that hosts a variety of events.
The Dominicans established themselves in Saint-Jacques in 1240, in a perimeter quarter outside the first enclosure. The large Gothic church with its timber-framed roof, one of the two cloisters and the capitular chapel have survived relatively well, despite devastating fires and a long occupation by the army before the French Revolution.
Paradoxically, the military occupation saved this remarkable ensemble, the only one of the four convents of the mendicant orders to have survived. The church, now owned by the town, was restored in the 1980s.
The site is only open for exhibitions.
* This site is managed by the town and is open for hire. Please contact the Palais des Congrès on 04 68 68 26 26.
Spoken languages
- French