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It is prudent to go to the town hall before the visit to pick up the key if the church is not open."
In Hérisson, a small town in the Allier region nestled on the banks of the Aumance, this recommendation is swept away with a big smile by the person who runs the tiny municipal tourist office.
"It is open!
However, I hope you have a car, it's a bit far. ”
It is thus in this department where the churches, sometimes lost at the end of a long road, welcome with effusion the amateurs of painted decorations and, incidentally, of treasure hunts.
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Created in 2005 by an association of volunteers, the “painted churches route” of Bourbonnais today includes twenty-five buildings from the Romanesque period scattered throughout the countryside.
In Hérisson, the one we are targeting is located in Châteloy, very close.
The winding road which leads there, passing through fields, ends in a few roofs flanked by a bell tower.
The door of Saint-Pierre church is wide open.
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